The 28-year-old arrived at the agency’s office on Ballard Estate around 9:30 a.m. and left around 6 p.m.
Dressed in a pink hooded jacket and carrying a handbag, Rhea was escorted by police personnel.
She was interrogated for about six hours by the agency for the first time in this case on Sunday. She will be questioned again on Tuesday.
“She came yesterday, she came today … we talked to her all day, we questioned her. So, I can’t say she is not cooperating. She will come tomorrow as well. So we are receiving her cooperation,” said the deputy director general of the NCB (DDG) (Southwest region) Mutha Ashok Jain told reporters after the interrogation session.
He said the agency was doing a “professionally thorough and systematic job” and will report to the court its “detailed findings” in this case.
The agency has said it wants to question Rhea and confront her with her younger brother Showik Chakraborty (24), Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda (33) and his house employee, Dipesh Sawant, to determine their roles in this. alleged drug trafficking after he obtained the mobile phone. chat logs and other electronic data that suggested these people allegedly acquired some prohibited drugs.
The NCB had arrested the three men in this case last week.
Authorities said Rhea was questioned about these lines on both days.
She was previously questioned by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) who are investigating different angles surrounding the Rajput’s death.
Rhea, in interviews with various television news channels, has said that she has never used drugs. However, she claimed that the Rajput used to use marijuana.
Meanwhile, the NCB arrested another man, identified as Anuj Keshvani, in the case.
The agency said his name came up during the questioning of Kaizan Ebrahim, who was previously arrested in this case. Ebrahim is currently out on bail.
Keshvani has undergone a Covid-19 test and will appear in court for custody via video conference at 7:30 p.m. Monday, DDG Jain said.
The agency had said it had seized drugs such as hashish, “commercial quantity” of LSD and marijuana and cash after raids were carried out against Keshvani on Sunday.
A total of nine people have been arrested so far by the NCB, seven directly related to this investigation, while two were arrested when an investigation was launched under the criminal sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).
When the investigation of the case began, the agency had arrested two men, Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora, for alleged drug trafficking and the authorities have assured that through them they reached Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit Parihar, who are allegedly linked to this drug case as they were in contact with Miranda.
Miranda is alleged to have told NCB investigators that she used to source buds or cured marijuana for the Rajput home.
Miranda, they had said, allegedly used to get them medication following Showik’s alleged instructions, agency officials said.
Both Lakhani and Arora have been released on bail. The NCB had said that it recovered 59 grams of cannabis from them.
Regarding reports that some of the defendants had contracted Covid-19, Jain said: “It is not at all my knowledge. We will test them according to the protocol established by the honorable court and if someone tests positive ( for the coronavirus) we will take all the precautions according to the established norms “.
He also said that “no one” from Bengaluru has been subpoenaed in the case so far.
The NCB, while seeking pretrial detention for one of the defendants in this case last week, had told a local court that it was investigating the “drug citadel in Mumbai, and especially Bollywood” in this investigation.
This case has given the NCB a “hint” of the narcotics ring and its penetration into Bollywood or the Hindi film industry, DDG Jain told reporters last week.
The NCB investigation began after the DE shared a report following the cloning of two Rhea mobile phones that suggested conversations about the acquisition, transaction and use of prohibited drugs.
Rajput, 34, was found dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.
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