MUMBAI: After actor Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday in a drug case linked with Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, her lawyer Satish Maneshinde said it was a “travesty of justice”.
“Travesty of justice. Three central agencies hounding a single woman just because she was in love with a drug addict who was suffering from mental health issues for several years and committed suicide due to consumption of illegally administered medicines, drugs,” Maneshinde said after the actor’s arrest.
After her arrest, Chakraborty was taken for medical examination.
She will be produced before a magistrate via video conferencing by 7:30 pm today, said KPS Malhotra, Deputy Director, NCB. NCB has also summoned Rajput’s staff Neeraj Singh and Keshav for questioning in the case.
She is the ninth person arrested in the ongoing case by the NCB. Earlier in the day, Chakraborty reached NCB office in Mumbai for the third consecutive day for interrogation. Her brother Showik Chakraborty and her associate Samuel Miranda have also been arrested in the same case. Both of them have been sent to the NCB custody till September 9.
Chakraborty had earlier filed a complaint before Mumbai Police requesting that a First Information Report (FIR) be registered against Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister, Priyanka Singh, Dr Tarun Kumar of RML Hospital, Delhi and others under IPC, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines.
In her complaint to the Senior Inspector of Police, Bandra Police Station, Chakraborty stated that Priyanka Singh had sent Rajput a prescription by Dr Tarun Kumar and he “appears to have prescribed medication controlled under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 to Sushant without any consultation as mandated by law.”
The case filed on the complaint of actor Rhea Chakraborty had been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as per the orders by the Supreme Court, according to the Mumbai Police on Tuesday.
“As per the complaint of Rhea Chakraborty, a case had been registered at Bandra police station under sections of IPC, and NDPS Act. In line with the orders by the Supreme Court of India, the case has been transferred to the CBI for further investigation,” Mumbai Police spokesperson, N Ambika said.
The CBI has registered an FIR against Chakraborty and others in connection with the actor’s death.
The Enforcement Directorate had on July 31 registered an Enforcement Case Information Report in the late actor’s death case after an FIR was filed by Rajput’s father KK Singh against Rhea Chakraborty in Bihar on July 28.
Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence on June 14. (ANI)
