RGV shocked over SIT targeting actors

Deploring the way cine artists were projected as part drug mafia, the maverick film maker Ram Gopal Verma (RGV) finally put an end to his silence and questioned the investigating authorities’ the reason for selectively targeting Tollywood while the drug menace spread its tentacles on all walks of life.

In a series of Facebook posts on Saturday RGV suspected that Akun Sabharwal the Director Enforcement has been leaking information to press which has been projecting him as a Baahubali.  “Nobody is denying the integrity of Mr. Sabarwal or his department but even without any charges or conclusive proof to allow the media leaks to destroy the reputations of people apart from causing distress to their families is highly deplorable,” he said.  He wondered if the school children taking drugs also will be summoned by SIT and interrogated for 12 hours like they did to Puri Jagannath and Subba Raju.

He felt that there is a deep rooted conspiracy to target only the film industry. “How will the enquiry team members feel if they and their family members are being humiliatingly paraded without any basis.  I appeal to the humaneness of Mr.Sabharwal and his team to be more sensitive in how they do their job without maligning people's minds?” RGV asked.   He further added that Law clearly says a person is considered innocent until proven guilty and here just on a mere enquiry even without a charge or a case filed people are being projected like criminals.

“Why can't Akun Sabharwal say to the press that only he is the authorised person to speak on what's going on and rest are nothing but ill informed speculations? Akun Sabharwal's silence is making the baseless and nonstop speculations sound like truth thereby causing tremendous damage to reputations of people.  He wanted to know whether Akun Sabharwal is so inhuman that he is not considering the inhuman humiliations various people are going through due to leaks from the department.

Within minutes of RGV’s sensational posts that have kickstarted a hot debate among fans of Tollywood Excise Commissioner Chanravadan and Akun Sabharwal addressed media and denied victimisation of Tollywood.  “We are very serious about finding the real culprits. Each person will be questioned as per the provisions of the law,” Chandravadan said. He urged RGV without naming him, not to trivialise the drug issue through his posts.

Meanwhile, the SIT team has begun questioning yet another Telugu actor Tarun on Saturday. Tarun is the son of yesteryears’ heroin Roja Ramani.