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Sushant Singh Rajput Case LIVE Updates: Actor's House Help Dipesh Sawant an Active Member of Drug Syndicate, Says NCB

News18.com | September 6, 2020, 6:07 PM IST
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Mumbai: Actress Rhea Chakraborty reached Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office on Sunday morning to serve her summons for joining probe in the drugs case linked to the death of her live-in partner and actor Sushant Singh Rajput, officials said. The agency has said that it wants to question Rhea, 28, the main accused in the death case, to take the probe forward in the case.

The agency also added that it wants to confront Rhea with her brother Showik Chakraborty, Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant in order to ascertain their individual roles in this alleged drug racket after it obtained mobile phone chat records and other electronic data that suggested some banned drugs were allegedly being procured by these people. Rhea, in interviews given to multiple TV news channels, has said that she has never consumed drugs herself.
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Dipesh Sawant, Sushant Singh Rajput's house staffer, has told Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) that the late actor was consuming marijuana and hash. Dipesh said that he never brought marijuana for him but others did. Rhea Chakraborty had also talked about Sushant's marijuana addiction in her interviews earlier. 

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Rhea Chakraborty is said to be questioned on following lines by the NCB: 

-- Who attended Sushant Singh Rajput's parties and what kinds of drugs were consumed at these casual gatherings?

-- Who all consumed said drugs?

-- Did Rhea consume drugs?

-- Was Rhea procuring drugs for Sushant?

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Sep 6, 2020 10:37 am (IST)

NCB has revealed that Sushant Singh Rajput's house staff Dipesh Sawant was giving evasive answers to the agency officers and trying to pass on the blame to others in connection with the drugs angle in actor's death. The contradictory nature of statements led to his arrest by the NCB.

Sep 6, 2020 10:34 am (IST)

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has summoned Sushant Singh Rajput's live in partner and actress Rhea Chakraborty for questioning in connection with the drug case. Rhea's brother Showik Chakraborty has already been placed in NCB custody along with Sushant's house manager Samuel Miranda and staffer Dipesh Sawant. Rhea is likely to appear before NCB later in the day.

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She had, however, claimed that the late actor used to consume marijuana. The NCB, over the last two days, has arrested her younger brother Showik (24), Sushant's house manager Samuel (33) and Dipesh, a member of the actor's personal staff, in this case.

It is claimed that Samuel told NCB investigators that he used to procure bud or curated marijuana for the late actor's household. Dipesh was arrested on Saturday and he is expected to be produced by the agency before a local court on Sunday for seeking his custody.

A total of 8 people have been arrested till now by the NCB with six being directly linked to this probe while two were arrested by it when probe was launched under criminal sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. When the probe in the case began, the agency had arrested two men, Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora, for alleged drug peddling and officials have claimed that through them they reached Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit Parihar who are allegedly linked to this drugs case as they were in touch with Miranda.

Various angles surrounding the death of Sushant are being probed by three federal agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The NCB initiated a drug angle probe in this case after the ED shared with it a report following the cloning of two mobile phones of Rhea. Sushant was found dead at his flat in suburban Bandra area on June 14.
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