On October 21, 2021, Ananya Panday had faced the biggest blow of their lives as a team of NCB officials had reached Ananya Panday’s residence in Mumbai on Thursday and she was summoned for questioning. The interrogation went on for two hours in the evening. Ananya Pandey had reached the NCB office with her dad Chunkey Pandey for the first round of interrogation.

The actress was also called for interrogation on Friday morning for which she had arrived three hours late. While the agency told her to come on time, she arrived three hours late post which NCB Zonal director reprimanded her and said, NCB is not a “production house” but “office of central agency”. Later, the actress was grilled for 4 hours at their office.

According to a report in India Today, NCB had recovered chats between Ananya Panday and Aryan Khan in which the two were discussing procuring “ganja”. NCB sources had revealed, “At one point in the conversation between Aryan Khan and Ananya Pandey, Aryan was talking to Ananya about ganja. Aryan was asking if there could be some “jugaad” to arrange the weed.” To this, Ananya Panday had replied, “I will arrange”.When NCB had shown this chat to Ananya Panday during the interrogation she had replied that she was talking about cigarettes with Aryan Khan and not any drugs.