Mumbai:
Actor Rhea Chakraborty might be taken to Mumbai’s Byculla Jail this morning, a day after she was arrested on drug fees associated to the Sushant Singh Rajput case. She was despatched to jail for 14 days by a Justice of the Peace who rejected her bail final evening.
The 28-year-old is anticipated to request a classes court docket for bail right this moment. She spent the evening on the Narcotics Management Bureau workplace final evening, in line with particular public prosecutor Atul Sarpande.
Rhea Chakraborty has been charged with organizing medication for her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput, a Bollywood star whose shock dying on June 14 is being investigated by the CBI. There isn’t a point out within the court docket papers of her utilizing medication.
She faces fees that might result in as much as 10 years in jail.
Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty are accused of arranging medication with assist from Sushant Singh Rajput’s workers Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant, who have been allegedly in contact with drug sellers.
The Narcotics Management Bureau arrested Rhea Chakraborty after three days of questioning and mentioned in its court docket paperwork that she was “an lively member of the drug syndicate related with drug provides” and knew of “each supply and cost”.
“Additionally it is clear from the assertion that Rhea Chakraborty used to obtain medication for Sushant Singh Rajput for consumption objective,” the anti-drugs company mentioned. Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant advised investigators that they used to obtain and obtain medication “for the consumption of Sushant Singh Rajput” and each the actor and Rhea Chakraborty would each pay.
She used to “handle finance for drug procurement together with Sushant Singh Rajput”, the doc mentioned.
The company additionally mentioned the drug deliveries can be acquired by Sushant Singh Rajput’s aides and typically the cost and selection of medication was confirmed from Rhea Chakraborty.
Whereas mainstream Bollywood has been largely silent, a number of distinguished members of the movie fraternity have come out in Rhea Chakraborty’s help on social media, as a counter to a big part that has focused her over Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying.