The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty and Samuel Miranda late Friday in connection with the drug investigation linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
NCB Deputy Director KPS Malhotra said: “We have informed Showik and Samuel Miranda’s family and they have both been arrested under various sections of the NDPS law.” Both will occur on the court on Saturday, he added.
An office team raided Showik’s residence in the Santa Cruz (West) area and Miranda’s residence in the suburban Andheri (West) area in the early hours of Friday. Some evidence had been collected from both places.
Previously, the NCB arrested two drug traffickers operating in Mumbai named Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit Parihar.
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NCB sources said that both Vilatra and Parihar revealed Showik and Miranda’s name during questioning.
An analysis of Showik’s chats revealed that on March 17, 2020, he shared Vilatra’s contact number with Samuel Miranda and asked him to pay him Rs 10,000 for 5g. Thereafter, Miranda contacted Vilatra for the first time at Showik’s urging, NCB officials added.
The office noted that there were several cases in which Parihar organized drugs and was in regular contact with Showik.
Parihar is known to have ties to the narcotics case filed against Rhea Chakraborty and many others. Rhea is the main defendant in the 34-year-old actor’s death case that is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on money laundering charges and NCB.
Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Bandra apartment on June 14.
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