In its ongoing investigation into the drug angle in the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested one more person from Bandra, Karanjeet aka KJ, on Saturday.
According to NCB officials, Karanjeet was allegedly part of the drug syndicate that he had arrested as part of the investigation. Sameer Wankhede, deputy director of NCB, confirmed the arrest.
NCB officials did not comment on whether they found drugs in Karanjeet or who he was in contact with. Karanjeet was taken to NCB’s South Mumbai office on Saturday morning and his questioning continues, NCB officials said.
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NCB has been conducting raids in the western suburbs, including Bandra, Khar, Lokhandwala, and Powai.
So far, the NCB has arrested 11 defendants in the case, including actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother, Showik Chakraborty, Sushant Singh Rajput’s home manager, Samuel Miranda, domestic helper Dipesh Sawant and the alleged traffickers. Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit Parihar, Kaizan. Ebrahim, Karna Arora, Abbas Lakhani and Anuj Keshwani.
Rhea, Showik, Miranda, Sawant, Vilatra and Parihar are in judicial custody after a court rejected their requests for bail on Friday. Arora, Lakhani and Ibrahim were released on bail shortly after they were taken into judicial custody a week ago.
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Keshwani is in NCB custody until September 14.
NCB had allegedly seized contraband from Keshwani’s residence in Khar on September 6. Keshwani was arrested based on Ebrahim’s statement, who revealed that he allegedly used to buy drugs from Keshwani.
Rajput was found hanged 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 actors’ respective fan groups, 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 before the next state assembly elections.
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