Actor Sreenath Bhasi likely to be made witness in Alappuzha hybrid ganja case

The Excise department is likely to make actor Sreenath Bhasi a witness in the Alappuzha hybrid ganja case.

Excise department officials on Wednesday said that the actor would be served a notice asking him to record his statement before a magistrate.

On April 28, Mr. Bhasi along with actor Shine Tom Chacko and model K. Sowmya appeared before the excise team probing the case. They were let off after interrogation. Though call and message details retrieved from the mobile phone of Thasleema Sulthana, one of the accused in the case, established her links with the actors, officials said they could not be named as accused in the case.

“Mr. Bhasi and Thasleema know each other. He is likely to be asked to record his statement before a magistrate so that he cannot change it later,” said an Excise department official.

Excise sleuths seized 3 kg of hybrid ganja on April 1 from a resort at Omanapuzha in Alappuzha. Besides Thasleema, it arrested her husband Sultan Akbar Ali and K. Feroze in connection with the case.

Bail plea rejected

Meanwhile, a local court in Alappuzha rejected the bail applications of all three accused in the case.