Rhea Chakraborty has spent two nights in Byculla Jail, the only prison for women in Mumbai.
New Delhi:
Rhea Chakraborty has been denied bail and will remain in Mumbai Byculla Jail for now. A court rejected bail a day after hearing arguments from the actress and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the agency that arrested her while investigating drug charges linked to the Sushant Singh Rajput case.
On Tuesday, after Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest, the NCB had said that it was satisfied with her three-day questioning and did not want her custody. Two days later, on Thursday, the drug investigation agency strongly argued that Rhea Chakraborty should remain in jail and should not receive bond.
The sources explain that the agency did not want to stop her because it could “weaken” her confession. The NCB told the court yesterday that her confession was voluntary and was made while she was not in custody. “That argument would not have stood if she had been in NCB custody. Her legal team could question the admissibility of her statements, call them coerced … to deny that motive, NCB did not stop her … to prove it as a voluntary confession already that he was not in custody, ”sources said.
However, the actress’s legal team is still challenging the confessional statements, saying that her questioning for three days for eight hours each was like a custody questioning.
Here are NCB’s key arguments against Rhea Chakraborty’s bail:
* Rhea Chakraborty had conscious knowledge of her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput’s drug use and “became part of this crime by acquiring drugs,” the Office of Narcotics Control said Thursday while arguing against the actor’s bail. who was arrested on drug charges on Tuesday.
* Rhea Chakraborty used her credit card and payment gateways to facilitate financial transactions related to illicit drug trafficking.
* Made a “voluntary confession” about his involvement during questioning and is admissible in court.
* The drugs funded (by Rhea Chakraborty) were not intended for personal use, but to be supplied to someone else.
* Section 27A of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) is applicable and “she cannot escape the clutches of the law.”
* If he is free on bail, the actor “can alter the evidence and also try to win witnesses using his position in society and the power of money.”
Rhea Chakraborty had retracted her confession, saying she was “forced to make incriminating confessions”. Her statement of bail said that she “had not committed any crime and had been falsely implicated in the case.”
The petition argued that his arrest was “unjustified and without any justification”, that his freedom was “arbitrarily restricted” and that no female officers were present during the interrogation. Rhea Chakraborty also said that she “did not have access to any legal advice during her questioning when she was questioned for a minimum of eight hours in a row by several male officers.”
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