Riya Chakraborty: Bollywood actress arrested on drug charges


Riya Chakraborty, 28, was arrested on Tuesday by the Narcotics Control Bureau of India. According to Mutha Ashok Jain, Deputy Director, Bureau of Narcotics Control, South-West India, Sushant Singh, a big name in Bollywood, has been accused of buying marijuana for Rajputs.

CNN has reached out to Chakraborty’s lawyer to comment.

Rajput, 34, Police found him dead in his flat in Mumbai in June, in what police described as suicide. Indian officials have conducted an autopsy but have not issued an official statement on the outcome. Mental health and suicide are forbidden in India.

Shortly after his death, Rajput’s father KK Singh lodged a police complaint in Bihar in which he lives, Chakraborty – a well-known Bollywood star – steals money from her boyfriend’s bank account and commits suicide. . Officials have not given details of how he may have been charged with Rajput suicide.

Chakraborty has denied the allegations. “It’s really sad that it’s 2020 and I still have to pay this price in India today because I’m in her life, I love her and I’ve been with her,” he told CNN’s Join News last month.

According to court documents, Chakraborty and the Rajputs lived together, although just a few days before the Rajput’s death, Chakraborty moved into his own Mumbai residence.

In August Gust, the case based on the allegations of Rajput’s father was transferred to the federal law enforcement agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which told CNN on Wednesday that it did not comment on the active investigation.

According to Jain of the Narcotics Control Bureau, a total of 10 people, including Chakraborty, have been arrested in the case.

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput during an interview in Mumbai, India on September 20, 2016.

Jain said Chakraborty has been remanded for 14 days for various offenses, including buying and consuming drugs. According to Jain, authorities did not recover any drugs from Chakraborty, who confessed to buying drugs for her boyfriend Rajput. The possible penalty for this crime is 10 years in prison and a fine of Rs 100,000 (1, 1,360).

No offense has been registered against Chakraborty yet.

Although authorities have arrested 10 people, they have not charged anyone with helping the Rajput commit suicide.

“This is a case of drugs … we have no order to investigate suicide,” Jain said. “The investigation is moving forward and going forward we will try to do some more work and see the whole network.”

For months, Rajput’s death and its aftermath have been widely covered in the Indian media. As India’s coronavirus outbreak has become the second largest in the world, media headlines are dominated by the twists and turns of the Rajput case.

Bollywood actor Riya Chakraborty with her brother before questioning the Central Bureau of Investigation over Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

But the coverage has often become a sensation, with numerous conspiracy theories and accusations of airing time on newscasts across the country.

Chakraborty has created an atmosphere of media circus. Inside Tweet in July, Chakraborty requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to start an inquiry into the case. “I just want to understand that Sushant was asked to take this step by pressure,” he said.

In a press release earlier this month, the CBI said it was investigating the Rajput’s death “in a systematic and professional manner”.

“Some media reports attributed to the CBI probe are speculative and not based on facts,” the CBI said in a statement.

Rajput made his Hindi cinema debut in 2013, according to the film site IMDB “Ka Po Che!”. His film ‘M.S. He won the Best Actor (Male) Award at the 2017 Indian Film Festival in Melbourne for Dhoni: The Untold Story, in which he played the role of Indian cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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