Updated: October 7, 2020 11:41:51 am
Actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik at the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) office in August. (Express Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
The Bombay High Court granted actor Rhea Chakraborty bail on Wednesday in a alleged drug case related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. While Rhea was granted bail with a personal bail of 1 lakh rupees, the high court rejected the testimony of her brother Showik and the alleged drug dealer Abdel Basit Parihar.
The court has ordered Rhea to appear before the nearest police station for ten days after her release. She was also prevented from leaving the country without court permission and will have to deposit her passport with the investigating agency. She has also been ordered to inform the investigating officer if she has to leave Greater Mumbai out.
When the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) requested a suspension of the operating order for one week, the HC refused to do so and said that it had stated that the crimes under the NDPS Act were “not subject on bail “. The bank said strict conditions have been imposed for granting the surety
Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty were in a relationship.
A single judge from Judge Sarang V Kotwal also granted bail to Sushant Singh Rajput’s cook, Dipesh Sawant, and his domestic helper, Samuel Miranda, on personal bail of Rs. 50,000 each. They will have to be available for questioning whenever necessary and further conditions may be imposed for a limited period.
Rhea, who was reportedly in a relationship with Sushant Singh Rajput, was arrested by the OCN on September 8, accused of being part of a drug syndicate operating in Mumbai. Her brother Showik was arrested on September 4. Her bail statement was rejected by the special court, after which she filed an appeal with the Bombay High Court. Since her arrest, Rhea Chakraborty has been in the Byculla jail cell. A the special court had been extended yesterday its judicial custody until October 20.
After listening to bail requests for nearly seven hours, Judge Kotwal had reserved his orders on September 29 after the NCB presented that the defendants were involved in crimes “worse than murder or wrongful death.” and that the case should be “a lesson” for others. .
Seeking that Rea’s bail statement be rejected, the OCN told the HC that Rea had bought drugs and Sushant Singh Rajput’s “hidden” drug habit, and therefore, Section 27A of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) that establishes penalties for financing drug trafficking and sheltering offenders was applied to them. The NCB called the brothers “active members of a drug syndicate connected to high society personalities and drug suppliers.”
Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty after being arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on September 8 (PTI)
Attorney Satish Maneshinde, appearing for Rhea and Showik, had alleged that the investigations conducted by NCB have no jurisdiction, as the case was brought in relation to the drug angle associated with Sushant’s death and could be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation. (CBI) according to an order of the Supreme Court.
Rhea, in her plea, had supposedly a ‘witch hunt’ against her by NCB at the request of central agencies that have a mandate in ‘investigation of international ramifications’ but have found no evidence against her. Rhea also alleged that Sushant Singh Rajput used her and her brother to get him drugs and that he ‘took advantage of those closest to him to maintain his drug addiction’ and that he was a single user and had a habit of using others. people. around her for drugs.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is separately investigating a case against Rhea Chakraborty and others for allegedly instigating the actor’s suicide.
The central agency investigation, meanwhile, agrees with the AIIMS report that declares that Sushant died of suicide. And a forensic audit of Rajput’s bank accounts turned up nothing “suspicious” to suggest that his friend Rhea Chakraborty may have pushed Rajput to suicide for financial gain, agency sources confirmed to The Indian Express.
So the CBI, the sources said, is now focusing on the range of reasons that could have led the actor to kill himself: any role played by Chakraborty; professional rivalry and nepotism in Bollywood; effect of drug abuse and Rajput mental health.
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