Rhea and her brother had approached the special court under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) to request bail, as the trial court rejected their allegations on Wednesday. In a new statement, presented by her lawyer Satish Maneshinde, the 28-year-old actress claimed to be “innocent.” “She has not committed any crime and has been falsely implicated in the case,” the statement read. Thursday’s decision came after the special judge heard the bail statement in the presence of Maneshinde, special prosecutor Atul Sarpande and NCB investigating officer Kiran Babu.
The judicial custody of Rhea’s brother, Showik Chakraborty, has been expanded. Along with him, the former manager of Sushant Singh Rajput, Samuel Miranda, and the alleged drug traffickers Zaid Vilatra and Basit Parihar have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days by the Mumbai session court. They had all requested bail, but the matter was postponed until Thursday.
Rhea was charged under sections 8 (C), 20 (b) (ii), 22, 27A, 28 and 29 of the NDPS Act for her alleged role in the field of drugs that has emerged in investigations into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. . In a kind of anticlimax, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested her, but then refused to take her into their own custody and instead requested 14-day judicial custody, which was granted. The NCB made the sensational arrest as part of its investigation to unravel the drug nexus in the film industry, culminating in three days of hard questioning and intense speculation.
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