Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty will be arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drug abuse angle linked to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. “Process underway for NCB to arrest Rhea Chakraborty in drug case related to Sushant Singh Rajput’s death probe,” the news agency ANI tweeted.
The NCB, over the last few days, arrested Rhea Chakraborty’s younger brother Showik Chakraborty, Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda and his house staffer Dipesh Sawant in this case. Others who have been arrested are Zaid Vilatra, Kaizan Ebrahim, Abdel Basit Parihar, Karan Arora, and Abbas Lakhani.
The 28-year-old actor reached the NCB office in Mumbai on Tuesday for the third round of questioning in the Rajput’s death case. Chakraborty was escorted from her residence in Juhu to the NCB office in Fort by a police vehicle after she was mobbed by a horde of mediapersons on Sunday, the first day she was summoned by the agency.
Earlier, she was questioned by the NCB for about eight hours on Monday and six hours on Sunday. The agency earlier said it was getting “her cooperation” in the drugs case probe linked to case of death of Rajput (34), who was found hanging in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.
NCB deputy director general (south-west region) Mutha Ashok Jain on Monday said that the agency was doing a “professionally thorough and systematic job” and that it will inform the court about its “findings in detail”.
The NCB launched its investigation after WhatsApp chats related to drug consumption, procurement, usage and transportation in connection with Rajput’s death case surfaced.
Rhea Chakraborty was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that are probing different angles surrounding Rajput’s death.
