The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating allegations of drug use by the late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his girlfriend and actress Rhea Chakraborty, questioned Chakraborty for nearly six hours on Sunday. Rhea was allowed to leave the OCN office at around 6.15pm.
Sameer Wankhede, NCB area director said, “Due to his late arrival, the investigation has not been completed. We will call her again tomorrow and the investigation will continue. “
On Sunday morning, Rhea’s attorney and lead attorney, Satish Maneshinde, said: “Rhea is ready for an arrest as this is a ‘witch hunt’ and if loving someone is a crime, she will face the consequences of her love. Being innocent, she has not gone to any court to obtain advance bail in all the cases charged by the Bihar police now with CBI, ED and NCB. ”
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Hours earlier, the OCN presented Dipesh Sawant, a Rajput domestic helper, before a trial court. Sawant was sent into NCB custody until September 9.
NCB officials informed the court that they wanted Sawant’s custody to investigate and confront him with other suspects, including Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty, Sushant Singh Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda, Zaid Vilatra. All are in custody to unearth the trail of drugs.
According to NCB officials, on March 17, 2020, Sawant had gone with Samuel to obtain 5 grams of marijuana from Zaid Vilatra, who has been arrested and is in the custody of NCB, per Showik’s instructions.
Subsequently, on April 17, 2020, Rhea and Showik instructed Sawant to receive a 10 gram delivery of hashish from Kaizan Ebrahim, who is also detained in the case, near the Mont Blanc building. On May 1, 2020, Showik had asked him to receive marijuana from a person named Dwayne and had received 50 grams of marijuana from Dwayne on May 2, 2020. NCB officials also claimed that in the first week of June, Sawant had received 100 grams of marijuana from a deliveryman in Rishikesh Pawar and claimed that this showed that he was part of the drug union.
However, Sawant’s lawyer, Rajendra Rathod, argued in court that the agency had not specified his exact role and that he was only a Rajput employee.
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