Sushant Singh Rajput's Flatmate Siddharth Pithani Procured Drugs Via His Bank Account Calling It 'Puja Samagri'
In a massive development in the drugs case linked to Sushant Singh Rajput's death, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has revealed in its draft charge sheet that the late actor's friend and flatmate?Siddharth Pithani abetted Rajput's extreme addiction to drugs.
Siddharth Pithani, as per the probe agency, used Sushant's bank application to pay for Ganja and other drugs describing them as "puja samagri".?
For the unversed, Pithani was arrested in May 2021 from Hyderabad by NCB and was only granted bail last week.?
Furthermore, NCB has claimed Agisilaos Demetriades, brother of Arjun Rampal's partner Gabriella, had obtained banned substances from a Nigerian national "and circulated it in high society and Bollywood," reports The Indian Express.
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Rhea purchased drugs for Sushant Singh
In the charge sheet that has been filed against 34 accused, the NCB has accused his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty of allegedly procuring drugs for him. Rhea Chakraborty had been purchasing and financing Marijuana for Rajput. She was delivering it to the late actor and made payments at his instance.
"Draft charges were submitted against Rhea Chakraborty before the Special NDPS court. She has been accused of receiving deliveries of ganja.
"She was purchasing it from Samuel Miranda, Showik Chakraborty and Dipesh Sawant and others. After purchasing she used to keep it and later hand it over to the late actor. She made the payments for them in 2020. We have enough evidence against them," an insider was quoted as saying by IANS.
Siddharth Pithani who was granted bail last week had been booked under section 27 (A) (financing illicit traffic and harboring offenders) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, among other charges.
Pithani had sought bail, claiming he was framed in a false case.
He had claimed in his plea that he was never found in possession of any drugs, and nothing which could suggest he was involved in drug trafficking was recovered from him.
Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly committed suicide in his Mumbai residence in June 2020. Later, the NCB began a probe, based on some WhatsApp chats, into an alleged drug supply racket in the film industry.
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