Ness Wadia, high-flying director of Wadia Group, lands in new controversy

Ness is now back in India, and a group spokesperson said his conviction will not impact his role as directors in Wadia group companies

Since late March, the Mumbai's cocktail circuits were agog with rumours that Wadia group scion, Ness Wadia, 47, has been arrested in Japan for drug possession and the family has flown to Tokyo to bring him back.

Early this week, these rumours were confirmed when the Financial Times reported that that eldest son of Nusli Wadia, the patriarch of the Wadia group, had been sentenced for two years for drug possession while on a skiing holiday in Japan. The sentence was later suspended by the local district court.

According to a report by Japanese state broadcaster NHK, customs officials at