Sushant Singh Rajput died on June 14. (Photo: Sushant Singh Rajput/Facebook)For the first time in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the prime accused Rhea Chakraborty has filed a complaint against the actor’s family with the Mumbai Police. Rhea, who is being investigated by several agencies in connection with Sushant’s death, has alleged that the actor’s sister, Priyanka Singh, and a doctor from Ram Manohar Lohia hospital got the actor psychiatric drugs without consultation and by using a forged prescription.
Rhea in her complaint asked the Bandra police to investigate if these medications, which fall under the ambit of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, resulted in the deterioration of Sushant’s mental health or his death on June 14.
Rhea Chakraborty, herself, is being questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau, which is probing a drug angle linked to Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. She has visited the NCB office twice so far. Her younger brother Showik Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda are among those arrested in the drugs case.
Rhea Chakraborty will be produced before the court by the NCB via video conferencing at 7:30 pm today to seek her custody.
Actor Kamya Punjabi expressed her happiness over Rhea Chakraborty's arrest by NCB. Kamya tweeted, "Jai ho #JusticeForSSR."
Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer Satish Manishende called her arrest by the NCB "a travesty of justice".
“Three central agencies hounding a single Woman just because she was in love with a drug addict and was suffering from mental health issues for several years under the care of five leading psychiatrists in Mumbai, who ended up committing suicide due to consumption of illegally administered medicines and used drugs," the lawyer said.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday arrested actress Rhea Chakraborty in a drugs case related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. She is the tenth person to be arrested in the case. Her brother Showik, Rajput’s former cook Dipesh Sawant and former housekeeper Samuel Miranda have already been arrested in the case.
The NCB, after arresting Rhea Chakraborty on Tuesday, said they had come across chats in a Whatsapp group, which included her brother, Sawant and Miranda, where marijuana was discussed. Miranda had earlier said that he produced weed for Sushant Singh Rajput. The NCB, however, did not clarify if Rhea was arrested for consumption or being part of a group involved in the buying and selling of drugs.
Earlier, Rhea had also said that Rajput regularly took marijuana and she had discouraged him from using it due to his ongoing psychiatric treatment. Rhea’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde had said she never consumed drugs and was ready for a blood test.
Following a magistrate court order on Monday, the NCB will seek her custody through video conferencing instead of taking her physically to the court. It is not clear if she will be produced today or tomorrow.
Reacting to Rhea Chakraborty's arrest by the NCB, Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Shweta Singh Kirti wrote on Instagram, "God is with us." Sushant's former partner Ankita Lokhande shared her happiness on the development in a comment under Shweta's post.
Hours after her third round of questioning, Rhea Chakraborty was on Tuesday arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau. "Rhea has been arrested and the due process of informing the family has been completed," the NCB said.
Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister Shweta Singh Kirti on Tuesday termed the FIR filed by Mumbai police against her sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh as “fake”.
After a complaint filed by Rhea Chakraborty, the Mumbai police on Tuesday filed an FIR against Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, and a doctor from Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi.
Reacting on the FIR, Shweta Singh Kirti wrote on Twitter, “Nothing’s gonna break us, definitely not this fake FIR! #SSRFamilyStandsStrong #UnitedForSSRJustice #WholeIndiaIsSSRFamily”.
Sushant Singh Rajput's family lawyer Vikas Singh Tuesday alleged that the FIR registered by Mumbai Police against the late star's sisters and others on Rhea Chakraborty's complaint is illegal and they will take serious action in the matter.
The senior advocate said the case related to Rajput's death was serious where multiple agencies like the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Narcotics Control Bureau are probing the issue and they will not allow the accused to deflect the investigation by filing of such complaints.
He said a decision will be taken during the day whether the Rajput family, which has accused actress and Sushant's live-in partner Chakraborty of abetting his suicide, would file a contempt plea or quashing of her complaint in this matter.
"I have been shown the FIR. The first thought which comes to my mind is that Bandra police station is her (Chakraborty) second home. The FIR lodged by the police is completely illegal and contempt of the orders of the Supreme Court," Singh alleged at a press conference. The apex court has clearly said that Mumbai Police can register FIR only with respect to inquest proceedings. According to Supreme Court judgement no FIR can be registered against doctor without constituting a medical team," Vikas Singh said.
The Mumbai police Tuesday filed an FIR against Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, and a doctor from Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi based on a complaint filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty. A case has been filed at Bandra police station under sections pertaining to cheating, forgery, abetment to suicide, criminal conspiracy and other sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The FIR says that the accused “hatched a conspiracy and obtained false prescription on the letterhead of a government hospital for a banned medicine which is annexed under the NDPS Act and administered the same without supervising doses and quantity which may result in a chronic anxiety attack and which resulted in the commission of suicide.”