NCB deputy director KPS Malhotra told the media that the homes of Showik, who is the brother of Sushant’s girlfriend, Rhea Chakraborty, and Miranda’s were being searched, but declined to elaborate.
Around 6:30 a.m., NCB teams began the raids, which came a day after the Mumbai court sent alleged drug dealer Zaid Vilatra into NCB custody for seven days. The raids are carried out under the provisions of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1985. An NCB official said the searches are routine and the drug enforcement agency is following due procedures.
A large group of police officers were deployed outside the PrimRose Housing Society on Juhu Tara Road in Mumbai, the rented apartment of the Chakrabortys.
Later, the NCB brought Showik and Miranda in for questioning in their office after conducting searches for two hours. Samuel was previously detained by an NCB team.
The Office of Narcotics Control has been investigating a possible drug angle in the SSR death case after Enforcement Directorate officials tracked down Rhea Chakraborty’s WhatsApp chats alleging her of “drug use and trafficking prohibited “.
The NCB registered a case on August 26 after the Directorate of Enforcement wrote to it. On the intervening night of August 27-28, the narco team conducted searches in Mumbai and two people, namely Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora, were arrested and their possession recovered ‘bud’ (cured marijuana). There were some mentions of ‘outbreak’ in alleged social media posts among the people involved in the case.
Sushant’s manager, Shruti Modi, had informed the Central Bureau of Investigations that the late actor often used marijuana alongside Rhea Chakraborty, who smoked joints with SSR’s house manager Samuel Miranda and his brother Showik Chakraborty regularly on Sushant’s terrace, a CBI source told CNN-News18.
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