Unlike Republic which is writing daily fanfiction, Times Now has realized that they've been had.
I've been bored and keeping track of this case and from what I've seen, NCB does NOT have anything except that minor maal chat with Deepika. Everyone, including Times Now, had assumed that the maal chat was just an appetizer and that the NCB had more hidden evidence. But it looks more and more likely that they have nothing.
What that means is that the investigation, for now, is dead. Deepika lied and claimed that maal just means cigarettes but they can't nail her on that lie because they have no evidence. All the 3 women planned out their defense together from what it looks like. They all claimed that maal means cigarettes and that's just how they talk in the industry. What that means is that even though the defense sounds hilarious, NCB has nothing to negate it. They can't take it forward.
Now they're trying to save face and leaking about more names coming and how the 3 girls can be called again. They tried really hard to get Kshitij to give Karan Johar's name to take this forward but that failed too.
That's why the bhakt channels have moved back to the SSR case because now they need something to fill time on their network. The Bollywood case doesn't look like it's going anywhere. NCB has made a joke out of itself and Deepika, Sara, and Shraddha treated them like the clowns they are.
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