According to NCB officials, the duo were arrested after 10 hours of questioning.
Hours earlier, the NCB also conducted searches at Showik and Miranda’s residences. They also confiscated Showik’s laptop and mobile phone. The NCB had also told a court that Showik used to order ganja and marijuana from drug dealer Abdul Basit Parihar and make payments through Google Pay.
The new revelations, made by the Office of Narcotics Control in a Mumbai court as Parihar was filed earlier, came after an investigation into the drugs angle was launched in the case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who he was found dead in his Bandra apartment on June 14.
NCB is the third central agency to join the investigation into Sushant’s death, after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).
The NCB filed a case on August 26 after ED wrote to it about the drug angle, naming her brother Rhea, talent manager Jaya Saha, Sushant’s co-manager Shruti Modi, and hotelier from Goa, Gaurav Arya, under various sections of Narcotics. and Law on Psychotropic Substances. This followed WhatsApp messages between Rhea and Shruti Modi, and Miranda and Sushant’s roommate Siddharth Pithani came to light.
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