Rhea Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput
Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday after three days of questioning by the agency.
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Actress Rhea Chakraborty, arrested by the NCB in a drug case related to the death of her boyfriend and actor Sushant Singh Rajput, filed a bond statement in Mumbai on Wednesday. This is her second attempt to seek release after a trial court on Tuesday refused to grant her bail.
In the 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.
The court will hear the application for bail on Thursday. Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday after three days of questioning by the agency. Shortly after his arrest, a local court sent him into judicial custody until September 22. On Wednesday, she was transferred from the anti-drug agency office in South Mumbai to Byculla Prison here.
Meanwhile, the other defendants arrested by the NCB, including the actress’s brother Showik Chakraborty, Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda, his personal employee Dipesh Sawant, and suspected drug traffickers Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit. Parihar, were sent on 14 -Day to judicial custody by the court of sessions, said special prosecutor Atul Sarpande.
Showik Chakraborty and Sawant requested bail and their pleas will also be heard on Thursday, he said.
The NCB said Tuesday that it did not want custody of Rhea Chakraborty, having questioned her for three days.
After presenting it to the additional chief judicial magistrate via video link on Tuesday, the NCB told the court that it confronted all the other defendants, including Showik Chakraborty, during questioning and fact-checking their statements.
The agency claimed that the actress disclosed her involvement in the procurement of Rajput drugs and related financial transactions and also her instructions to co-defendants Miranda, Sawant and Showik Chakraborty. “It is therefore clear from her statement that Rhea is an active member of the drug syndicate related to drug supplies,” the agency said.
The sections of the NDPS (Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances) Act invoked against you include 8 (c) (sale, possession or manufacture of prohibited drugs) and 20 (b) (ii) (possession or use of small amounts of prohibited drugs) , according to his lawyers.
Rajput (34) was found hanged in his flat in the suburbs of Bandra on June 14. The NCB, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are investigating various angles surrounding his death.
The NCB is investigating the drugs angle in the case under the criminal sections of the NDPS Act, after the ED shared with it a report following the cloning of two Rhea Chakraborty cell phones. The actress was recently questioned by a CBI investigation team, as she is the main defendant in the complicity suicide case brought by Rajput’s father, and also questioned by the emergency department in a money laundering case.
She has denied all allegations.
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