Rhea Chakraborty linked to drug racket: NCB

Mumbai, July 13

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has claimed that actress Rhea Chakraborty and others were allegedly involved in a major criminal conspiracy to run a drugs racket for Bollywood and other high society people.

In its draft charges filed before a Mumbai Special NDPS Court on Tuesday, the NCB has detailed how between March and December 2020, Rhea, her brother Showik and 34 others, accused in the death case of the Sushant Singh Rajput, were part of a plot to finance, procure, sell, transport and distribute drugs like ganja, charas, cocaine, LSD to high-profile end users.

As part of the plot, from January to August 2020, Siddharth Pithani — a friend of Rajput, found dead in his rented Bandra home on June 14, 2020 — was in regular touch with the actor (Rajput) and his girlfriend Rhea, her brother Showik, domestic aides like Samuel Miranda, Dipesh Sawant and others to procure ganja, as per the NCB draft charges.

The probe agency revealed how Pithani had used a private bank app of Rajput to source ganja and other drugs from his bank account, describing them as ‘puja samagri’ (prayer material) and accordingly, abetted Rajput’s extreme addiction to drugs.

The NCB contended that the actress' brother Showik Chakraborty was also allegedly linked to drug peddlers from whom he received packets on behalf of Rajput. — IANS

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