Sushant Singh Rajput case: NCB arrests Rhea Chakraborty

In the first major step to unravel the mystery behind the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, his live-in partner Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old Rhea was arrested after three days of grilling during which she was jointly interrogated with three other accused – her brother Showik Chakraborty, Sushant’s house manager Samuel Miranda and house help Dipesh Sawant.

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“We have arrested Rhea Chakraborty…she was interrogated by us, she was also confronted with other accused,” NCB’s deputy director general Mutha Ashok Jain said outside the Exchange Building, the NCB regional office at Ballard Estate.

“We don't need her custody remand so we sought judicial custody. We aren't asking for her custody remand as whatever we wanted to cross-check with her, we've done already,” she said.

Rhea was taken to the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital at Sion, where her medical examination and Covid-19 test was done, which was negative.

Rhea was booked under sections 8, 20, 28, 29 of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

Showik, Samuel and Miranda and two other accused - alleged peddlers Abdel Basit Parihar and Zaid Vilatra will be produced before the magistrate’s court through video-conferencing on Wednesday on expiry of their remand.

Suffering for loving a drug addict, says lawyer

Describing the arrest as “travesty of justice”, Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde said that she was being hounded because she was in love with a drug addict and facing mental issues. “Three central agencies hounding a single woman, just because she was in love with a drug addict and was suffering from mental health issues for several years under the care of five leading psychiatrists in Mumbai, who ended up committing suicide due to consumption of illegally administered medicines and used drugs,” Maneshinde said

God is with us, says Sushant’s family

“God is with us,” reacted Shweta Singh Kirti, the sister of Sushant Singh Rajput, as soon as Rhea was arrested. The family has blamed Rhea for the death of Sushant and has been demanding her arrest.