Drugs case | Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik gets bail
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A Mumbai court docket on December 2 granted bail to actress Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty, who was arrested in a medicine case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had arrested Mr. Showik Chakraborty in September this yr beneath provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Special NDPS Court Judge G.B. Gurao granted bail to him on December 2 on a private bond of ₹50,000.
In his bail plea, Mr. Showik Chakraborty had relied on a current Supreme Court judgment which stated that “confessional statements” made to NCB officers can’t be thought of as proof.
He reiterated that he has been “falsely implicated” within the case.
Earlier, the court docket had additionally granted him bail in a associated case.
The NCB alleged stated that Ms. Rhea Chakraborty, who was Sushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend, and her brother used to facilitate drug deliveries and fee by way of bank cards, money and different fee gateways.
The company is conducting a probe into numerous drug angles linked to dying of Rajput, who was discovered hanging at his residence in suburban Bandra on June 14 this yr.
The NCB started its investigation after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which was probing cash laundering prices linked to the case, shared some social media chats retrieved from Ms. Rhea Chakraborty’s cell phone, hinting on the alleged use of banned medicine.
The Central company had earlier additionally arrested Ms. Rhea Chakraborty and a few workers members of Rajput and some others beneath numerous sections of the NDPS Act.
Ms. Rhea Chakraborty and another accused are at present out on bail.
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