New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday granted bail to Kannada film actress Ragini Dwivedi in the drugs racket case.
A bench of justices R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph set aside the November 3 order of the Karnataka High Court refusing to grant bail to Dwivedi and others in the case registered under various provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
During the hearing conducted through video conferencing, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra appearing for Dwivedi said the 31-year-old actress is in jail while three other co-accused are on bail.
He said that on September 2 last year, acting on information allegedly received by the police, she was arrested but no recovery of contraband was made from her.
Luthra said it was alleged that she was involved in the financing of the drugs network but there was no evidence besides the accusations of consumption of banned ecstasy drugs.
He referred to various case laws and said, bail could be…