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Sushant Singh Rajput Case LIVE Updates: Mumbai Police Charges SSR's Sister With Abetment to Suicide After Rhea's Complaint, CBI to Probe

News18.com | September 8, 2020, 10:52 AM IST
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Sushant Singh Rajput Case LIVE Updates: From two consecutive days, actress Rhea Chakraborty has been appearing before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the ongoing probe into a possible drugs connection in Sushant Singh Rajput's death. She will be grilled by the probing agency for the third day as well. Last night, after Rhea completed the questioning process for the day with NCB, she headed to Bandra police station and filed a police complaint against Priyanka Singh, SSR's sister for allegedly getting a bogus prescription for the actor to help him with his anxiety issue. Mumbai Police registered a case of abetment to suicide based on a complaint by Rhea Chakraborty against Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters and others. The case has been transferred to the CBI for further investigation.

In her six-page long complaint, the actress shared that Sushant passed away five days after he obtained a prescription wherein "he was unlawfully prescribed psychotropic substances at the behest of his sister Priyanka". Meanwhile, in a significant order, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) at Esplanade Court has ordered that all remand applications in the cases related to the Sushant Singh Rajput matter be conducted only through video-conference. The order was issued on Sunday citing the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and also "past experience" pertaining to maintaining law and order in such high-profile cases with huge media interest.
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Sep 8, 2020 10:51 am (IST)
Sushant Singh Rajput Case: Neither My Brother Nor I Ever Sold Drugs, Rhea Chakraborty to NCB

In her questioning, which began at 10 am on Sunday and lasted over eight hours, Rhea Chakraborty reportedly informed the NCB that neither she nor her brother Showik was involved in drug selling.

Sep 8, 2020 10:30 am (IST)

Mumbai Police has registered a case of abetment to suicide against two of Sushant Rajput's sisters and others, based on a complaint by Rhea Chakraborty. She had accused them of making "bogus medical prescription" to enable the actor to access anxiety medication that cannot legally be prescribed on WhatsApp. The case has been transferred to the CBI for further investigation

Sep 8, 2020 10:26 am (IST)

Will initiate contempt of court if police takes Rhea's plea forward: Vikas Singh

After Rhea' Chakraborty's fresh police complaints against Sushant Singh Rajput's sister, Priyanka, senior advocate Vikas Singh, who represents the late actor's family on Monday threatened that if the Mumbai Police takes this complaint forward, he would "initiate a request for contempt of court proceedings." "Mumbai police shall not accept any such complaint as it would be a clear violation of the Supreme Court's order. The order clearly prohibits any other agency apart from CBI from registering any new complaint in this case," said Singh at a press conference. "This is a clear attempt to deflect the mind of the people and derail the probe. If the Bandra Police will take this complaint forward, we will initiate contempt proceedings," he added.

Sep 8, 2020 10:20 am (IST)

Last night, Rhea Chakraborty filed a police complaint against Priyanka Singh, sister of her late boyfriend and actor Sushant Singh Rajput, for allegedly getting a bogus prescription for the actor to help him with his anxiety issues. In her six-page long complaint, the actress shared that Sushant passed away five days after he obtained a prescription wherein "he was unlawfully prescribed psychotropic substances at the behest of his sister Priyanka".

Sep 8, 2020 10:14 am (IST)

On day 2, Rhea Chakraborty was grilled by the NCB for about two hours. Here's what transpired on the Day 2 of Rhea’s questioning by the NCB.

-- Rhea met brother Shwik Chakraborty for the first time after he was arrested.

-- She was jointly questioned with Showik and Samuel Miranda

-- The actress was grilled on names of celebs at drug parties.

-- Was questioned if she forced Sushant Singh Rajput to consume drugs.

-- Quizzed about her connection with hotelier Gaurav Aarya.

Sep 8, 2020 10:04 am (IST)

A visual of Rhea Chakraborty leaving her building. She will be heading to the NCB office to be questioned by the probing agency for 3rd consecutive day.

Sep 8, 2020 9:54 am (IST)

From two consecutive days, actress Rhea Chakraborty has been appearing before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the ongoing probe into a possible drugs connection in Sushant Singh Rajput's death. She will be grilled by the probing agency today as well. 

Sushant Singh Rajput Case LIVE Updates: Mumbai Police Charges SSR's Sister With Abetment to Suicide After Rhea's Complaint, CBI to Probe
Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty

Rhea Chakraborty was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) too. Rhea, in interviews given to multiple TV news channels, has said that she has never consumed drugs herself. She had, however, claimed that the late actor used to consume marijuana. It is claimed that Miranda told NCB investigators that he used to procure bud or curated marijuana for the late actor's household.

A total of eight people have been arrested till now by the NCB with six being directly linked to this probe while two were arrested by it when the investigation 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.

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