Mumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik has been granted bail by a special court in Mumbai nearly three months after his arrest over drugs-related charges in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Ms Chakraborty was released on bail in October, nearly a month after her arrest.
Showik Chakraborty was arrested on September 4, along with Mr Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda, after being questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing allegations of drug abuse surrounding Mr Rajput’s death in June.
They were charged under multiple sections of the anti-narcotics law. The Mumbai court cited a recent Supreme Court judgment which said that statements or confessions before an NCB officer is not admissible evidence. Mr Chakraborty had approached the court for bail in the first week f November.
In October, Mr Chakraborty was denied bail Bombay High Court when his sister was given bail. The court had said there is enough evidence to show that he is part of a chain of drug dealers engaged in the trafficking of banned substances. The NCB started probing the drug angle in Rajput’s death case under criminal sections of the NDPS Act after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) shared with it some evidence about Rhea’s alleged links to procurement, transportation and consumption of banned drugs.
The anti-drugs agency has repeatedly alleged that the brother-sister duo “active members of a drug syndicate that was connected with high society personalities and drug suppliers”.
It also alleged that the siblings “abetted and financed” drug transactions. Rajput was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14.
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