90s star Mamta Kulkarni returns to India: About her criminal case involving ₹2000 crore drug haul

The Bombay High Court dismissed the case, stating it had insufficient evidence.

Mamta Kulkarni is an actress of the 90s in India with a crazy fan following. Her role, especially in Karan Arjun, and her hit songs, including “Koi Jaye Toh Le Aye (Ghatak – 1996), garnered her even more love and praise from audiences worldwide. However, in the late 90s, she was surrounded by controversies, one of which included a criminal case related to drugs. The actress is now back in India after 25 years.

Mamta Kulkarni is back in India and shares an emotional video on Instagram.

The popular Bollywood actress of the 1990s, Mamta Kulkarni, shared a heartfelt video on Instagram, where she expressed being overwhelmed by the experience of being back in India. She said in a video, “Hey guys this is Mamta Kulkarni, I just returned to India, Bombay, Aamchi Mumbai after 25 years. I’m really nostalgic that I went out of India in 2000 and exactly in 2024 I’m here. I’m really overwhelmed and emotional; I don’t know how to express it. Before the flight landed, I was looking at my left-right. I saw my country from the top for almost 25 years. I became emotional I had tears in my eyes. I put my foot down out of the Mumbai International Airport, and I became extremely overwhelmed.”

Bombay High Court dismissed criminal proceedings against Mamta Kulkarni.

Earlier this year, the Bombay High Court quashed proceedings against Mamta Kulkarni in connection of a ₹2000 drug case. A division bench, Justice Bharati Dangre, and Justice Manjusha Deshpande, struck down the case against the actress, citing a lack of evidence against her.

What was the ₹2000 drugs case?

The case began from a large-scale drug haul by the Thane police in April 2016, when the Anti-Narcotics Cell seized two vehicles carrying Ephedrine worth ₹80 lakh. The substance was traced to a factory in Solapur, Maharashtra, run by Avon Life Sciences Limited, a company reportedly controlled by Kulkarni’s husband, Vicky Goswami. The police alleged that Kulkarni, who was a director of the company and held 11 lakh shares, was complicit in the drug trafficking operation.

It was alleged that Goswami was the mastermind behind the racket, involving the manufacture and procurement of Ephedrine, a controlled substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1985. In subsequent raids, the police seized 18,000 kg of Ephedrine worth ₹2,000 crore from a factory owned by Avon Lifesciences Limited in Solapur.