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BOLLYWOOD COCAINE CLOUD SPREADS 

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FROM OUR BUREAU Published 06.05.01, 12:00 AM
Mumbai, May 6 :    Mumbai, May 6:  The cocaine trail looked set to snake deeper into Bollywood with the Narcotics Control Bureau saying that one of the peddlers arrested along with actor Fardeen Khan has admitted to have supplied drugs to several 'personalities' in the film world. Fardeen, the first actor to be arrested under the narcotics Act in India, was remanded in the custody of the drug-busters' bureau till May 18. However, a special narcotics judge will hear his bail application on Tuesday. Fardeen, who was picked up yesterday while buying cocaine from a peddler, has been charged with consumption of the drug. If convicted, the charge carries a sentence of one year and a fine. Peddling is a graver offence which could invite a term of up to 10 years. Two drug traffickers, Tony Gomes and Nasir Abdul Karim Shaikh, were also sent to custody along with Fardeen, whose latest film Pyar Tune Kya Kiya is now running in theatres. Nasir had said he used to supply drugs to other 'personalities' in Bollywood. The bureau is still interrogating him. But Gomes, said to be the main supplier, is yet to be questioned. Sources had said yesterday officials have kept under watch six persons linked to Bollywood for buying drugs. Fardeen's father, Feroze Khan, accompanied the actor to the judge's house where the remand order was issued. Feroze told a television channel that his son had made a mistake. 'He has to pay for it. The law has to take its course. I hope he will emerge stronger from the crisis,' he said. Feroze added that his son was not an addict. 'He told me 'Pa, I am not an addict but have taken the drug three or four times in life to get relief from stress',' the veteran actor said.    
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