File photo of Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty | Photo credit: IANS
Key points
- The agency has data of 23 GB that will be investigated further
- 12 financial transactions are also being studied
Mumbai / New Delhi: Samuel Miranda and Showik Chakraborty were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the investigation into “drugs” in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. NCB confirmed the development and made a formal announcement regarding the arrest.
“NCB will soon arrest Showik Chakraborty, Samuel Miranda in a narcotics case related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput,” NCB officials said according to the PTI news agency hours before the arrest.
“We (Samuel Miranda’s wife and his lawyers) have just come to ask where they are going to present him and what are the charges against him. They said they have nothing to offer for now,” said Abhiraj Parab, Samuel Miranda’s lawyer. . cited by ANI.
12 transactions unearthed, 23 GB of data yet to be tested
The office is known with certainty to have incriminating evidence against Chakraborty and his alleged involvement in drug trafficking. So far, five people have already been arrested for the matter. The duo’s financial track and digital records have also been nailed by NCB. The agency has discovered up to 12 transactions and the agency is known to have 23GB of data to unearth soon.
Times Now was the first to expose the nexus between ‘drugs’ in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. As previously reported, the drugs angle emerged after investigating agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) stumbled upon Rhea Chakraborty’s WhatsApp chats that referred to banned substances. and hinted at its alleged use in Sushant Singh Rajput.
Sushant Singh Rajput’s family has brought charges against Rhea Chakraborty and her family alleging that they “drugged” the Rajputs. Her father, KK Singh, even alleged that her son was “murdered”. The Office of Narcotics Control took over the drug case and has been investigating the angle of prohibited substances in the case.
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