Deepika Padukone's manager Karishma Prakash failed to appear before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday despite summons issued to her. The officials said that she had also not bothered to give a reason for the same. Officials said that they will send her a second summons after a two days wait. Karishma's name is under scrutiny for being in touch with a drug peddler arrested in the FIR No 16/20 case.On Wednesday the NCB also arrested another person named Nikhil Saldanha in the 16/20 case.

Karishma's name had come up in the investigation of a drugs peddler arrested by the NCB, after which her house was raided and she was summoned on Wednesday.