Abdel Basit Parihar, the 23-year-old Bandra resident arrested Thursday as part of the ongoing investigation by the Bureau of Narcotics Control (NCB) into the alleged angle of drugs in the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, was presented before a metropolitan magistrate on Friday. and in preventive detention until September 9.
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Parihar’s arrest followed that of another defendant, Zaid Vilatra. The agency claimed that Vilatra’s questioning revealed his connection to Parihar.
During Parihar’s questioning, he revealed that he would allegedly buy drugs from Vilatra and Kaizan Ebrahim on Showik Chakraborty’s instructions to Sushant Singh Rajput’s house manager, Samual Miranda, the agency said in its application seeking custody of Parihar until 11th of September.
The agency claimed that there were several cases where Parihar organized drugs and that he was in regular contact with Chakraborty. He also stated that “he is an active member of the drug union related to high society personalities and drug suppliers.”
NCB on August 28 arrested Abbas Ali Lakhani, 21, allegedly with 46 grams of Ganja. Based on the information provided by Lakhani, his alleged supplier, Karn Arora, was arrested with 13 grams of ganja.
Subsequently, according to information provided by two, NCB detained Vilatra. Parihar is the fourth person arrested in the case.
Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14 in what police said appeared to be an open and closed suicide case. The post-mortem report ruled out any dirty act. After two weeks of silence, a political controversy over the death erupted, as a Bihar police team set up to investigate the case in a complaint from the actor’s family alleged that they did not obtain the cooperation of their Mumbai counterpart.
The jurisdictional turf war spread to the legal arena when it approached the Supreme Court to decide whether CBI could investigate the matter. The issue became deeply bitter and divisive on multiple levels: between the Rajput and Chakraborty families, between the respective fan groups of the actors, between the governments of the two states in question, and between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its former ally. Shiv Sena, and left the entertainment industry vertically divided.
The case opened an intense debate in and about the industry, which turned into a war of words and accusations between two camps made up largely of “insiders” (with generational ties to Bollywood) and “outsiders” (top actors and filmmakers). generation). . Chakraborty and his supporters alleged that the Bihar government was trying to hijack the emotional issue for political capital ahead of the next state assembly elections.
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