A month after actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted her bail in a drug abuse case linked to the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Rhea was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on September 8 for her alleged involvement in buying marijuana for the Rajput, also her boyfriend.
However, Rhea’s brother Showik will remain behind bars after his bail statement was rejected. The court also refused to grant bail to Abdel Basit Parihar, a senior architecture student, accused of supplying Sushant Singh Rajput with narcotics, allegedly through Showik.
Judge Kotwal granted Rhea a bond with a personal bond of 1 lakh rupees and one or two guarantees for the same amount. However, she has been given time to provide guarantees, paving the way for the immediate release of the 28-year-old actress.
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The high court has ordered Rhea to hand over her passport to the investigating officer and not to leave India. You are also prevented from leaving the jurisdiction of the NDPS special court in Mumbai without submitting the itinerary to the special court. You will also need to report to the NCB office on the first Monday of each month for the next six months.
After the order was entered, Additional Attorney General Anil Singh requested a stay of the order for at least a week. “This matter involves a number of issues of law, and therefore we want to prove this order (before the Supreme Court),” Singh said.
Judge Sarang V Kotwal refused to suspend the order. “What do you want to prove?” The judge asked Singh. “I have maintained that all crimes under the NDPS (Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances) Act are not subject to bail,” added the judge when rejecting the request.
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Following Singh’s request, HC ordered Rhea to visit the nearest police station every day for the next ten days, so that she would be readily available to re-arrest her should the OCN be successful in their challenge of the order.
“We are delighted with the order of the Honorable Mumbai High Court granting bail to Rhea Chakraborty. Truth and justice have prevailed and ultimately the factual and legal submissions have been accepted by Judge Sarang V Kotwal, ”said attorney Satish Maneshinde, who represented Rhea.
“Rhea’s arrest and custody was totally unjustified and outside the scope of the law. The harassment and witch-hunting by three central agencies … the CBI, ED and NCB, of Rhea should come to an end, ”Maneshinde said. “We remain committed to the truth. Satya Meva Jayate “.
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Judge Kotwal also granted bail on Wednesday to two former Rajput employees – their home manager, Samuel Miranda, and Dipesh Sawant, who were also arrested by NCB on similar charges.
Both are ordered to be released on personal bonds of Rs 50,000 each and one or two bonds for the same amount. They are also ordered to surrender their passports and not leave the jurisdiction of the NDPS special court in Mumbai.
NCB had started an investigation into the angle of drugs in the Rajput suicide after a trail of WhatsApp chats came to light revealing the buying and selling of drugs.
Arrested on September 4, Showik was accused of being in regular contact with two drug traffickers, Abdul Basit Parihar and Kaizan Ebrahim, from whom he allegedly acquired contraband material for the deceased actor’s consumption. Rhea was also accused of acquiring drugs and, at times, also paying for contraband material.
However, the brothers were registered under strict provisions such as sections 8 (c) read with 20 (b) (ii) (produce, manufacture, possess, sell, buy, transport, store, use, consume, import, export or transshipment of cannabis other than ganja), 27A (financing of illicit drug trafficking and harboring offenders), 28 (attempt to commit crimes under the law) and 29 (complicity) of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985.
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