Arrested actor Rhea Chakraborty has admitted to organising drugs for deceased actor Sushant Singh Rajput who died by suicide on June 14 in Mumbai. Reports said she was confronted with her brother Showik by Narcotics Control Bureau officers. She then broke down and admitted to getting drugs for Rajput and occasionally consuming them with both Rajput and her brother.

Though Rhea Chakraborty had denied ever consuming drugs earlier, she admitted that she may have had them once in a while. An NDTV report said she said she was not in touch with any drug dealer and had asked Showik to get some during the coronavirus lockdown.

The actor had reached the NCB office on Tuesday on the 3^rd day of questioning when she was confronted with Showik and his statements made to officers. She is to be produced in court via video-conferencing at 7.30 pm today. The NCB took her for medical examination soon after formally arresting her in the investigation probing the drugs angle leading to Rajput’s suicide. The CBI is going into the conspiracies behind the suicide.

The drugs case is based on 59 grams of marijuana seized from two alleged drug-peddlers allegedly linked to Rajput.

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Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer has rubbished the arrest as a travesty of justice, according to a India Today report. Three Central agencies are hounding a single woman just because she was in love with a drug addict who was suffering from mental health issues for several years under the care of five leading psychiatrists and then committed suicide, her lawyer added.
Soon after her arrest, Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey said the NCB must have found evidence against Rhea Chakraborty after her arrest, ANI reported. The DGP added that she was totally exposed in the sense that she was connected to drug peddlers. It may be recalled that the DGP’s comments questioning her locus standi on commenting on senior Bihar politicians had drawn attention for its sexist and patriarchal overtones.

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