SSR Case / Rhea to be arrested after 3-day interrogation over drug links in Sushant case

Deccan Herald : Sep 08, 2020, 04:09 PM
Mumbai: Actor-model Rhea Chakraborty is set to be arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), after three days of grilling.

Rhea (28), the live-in partner of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, was grilled on Sunday and Monday, for six and eight hours, respectively. She was grilled throughout Tuesday.

Rhea’s brother Showik Chakraborty, Sushant’s house manager Samuel Miranda and house help Dipesh Sawant has been arrested by the NCB and are in remand till Wednesday.

During the interrogation, Rhea was questioned separately and confronted with other accused.

The NCB is probing the drug angle in the death case of Sushant and the larger nexus of Bollywood and drug mafia.

Two peddlers Abdel Basit Parihar and Zaid Vilatra are in the custody.

Meanwhile, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Esplanade court) in south Mumbai has passed an order saying all accused in the Sushant Singh Rajput case shall be produced for remand via video conferencing, keeping in mind the coronavirus pandemic and law and order situation.

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