Stock Image: Showik and Rhea Chakraborty | Photo credit: PTI
Mumbai: Showik Chakraborty, Rhea Chakraborty’s brother, admitted to taking drugs, reported Times now Thursday. According to Showik channel, in a statement to the Office of Narcotics Control, he claimed that he used to buy drugs for Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14.
Showik also reportedly claimed it was his sister Rhea Chakraborty, who used to pay money for drugs. Your statement has been registered under Section 67 of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act.
In his statement, Showik said that he arranged drugs, including yolk, for Sushant Singh Rajput’s home on several occasions. However, he said he did so after Sushant asked him to. the Shuddh Desi Romance The actor used to ask for cured marijuana (bud), Showik said.
Rhea’s brother also claimed that in March, Basit Parihar introduced him to Zaid Vilatra, who then gave Samuel Miranda sprouts in a bag outside a restaurant in Bandra.
Meanwhile, actress Rhea Chakraborty claimed in her bail request that she was forced to make incriminating confessions while in NCB custody. Rhea was arrested by the NCB on Tuesday after being indicted under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act for her alleged role in the drugs angle that emerged during an investigation into the death case of her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput.
Rhea, in the 20-page bail application, claimed to be “innocent”, saying that she “has not committed any crime. The applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case.”
Her request also mentioned that no drugs or psychotropic substances have been seized from Rhea, and that “the allegations, if any, would strictly refer to small amounts,” so the offense is bail in nature.
“The charges against the current applicant, at best, would establish a case of purchasing small amounts of drugs, which in essence is a bail offense. There is not a shred of evidence linking the applicant to trafficking financing. illicit or criminal harbor, “reads the app.
Rhea further stated that “during her custody, the applicant was forced to make self-incriminating confessions.”
“That in its Request dated September 8, 2020, the Applicant has formally retracted all these incriminating confessions,” he added.
“The plaintiff was summoned by the defendants and interrogated for hours on 6, 7 and 8 September 2020 at the OCN office. The plaintiff did not have access to any legal advice during her interrogation when she was interrogated for a minimum of 8 hours on a stretch of several male officers … There was not a single female officer who questioned the current Applicant as required by law, “the application read.
