The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Tamil actors K Srikanth and Krishna Kumar for questioning in connection with an alleged cocaine case early next week, officials said on Friday.
The ED zonal office in Chennai has issued summons to both the actors to depose them before the investigators by Monday and Tuesday.
According to officials privy to the development, both Srikant and Kumar have been asked to join the ongoing investigation into the alleged case and record their statements.
The summons is part of the ED’s investigation into the alleged money laundering and drug smuggling networks linked to the recent cocaine seizures in Chennai.
On 8 July 2025, the Madras High Court granted bail to Srikanth, 45, and Kumar, 47, in a case registered against them by the Greater Chennai City Police under the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. They were granted bail after the court took into account the extent that the two actors were only arrested for personal use coca and no accusation of personal consumption of coca. one of them was caught smuggling by the police.
The actors were arrested on charges of allegedly procuring contraband for personal consumption.
The Greater Chennai city police filed a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on June 18 after a special team of its Narcotics Intelligence Unit (ANIU) arrested a Ghanaian, John, who allegedly supplied cocaine to another accused, Pradeep Kumar. Subsequently, actors Srikant and Kumar, one Jawahar and Prasant were arrested. While John has been released on bail, Pradeep, Jawahar and Prasanth are still in jail.
The money laundering investigation by ED is trying to trace the alleged ill-gotten proceeds of crime that were owned and used by the accused and others in the case.
