Drug Probe
Drug case: Rhea Chakraborty, brother Showik to be in jail till Oct 20
Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty, who have been arrested on drug charges linked to the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput, will remain in jail till Oct 20 as a special Mumbai court has extended their judicial custody, media reports said.
Chakraborty, who was the girlfriend of Rajput, was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sept 9.
The NCB came into action after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which was probing into the money laundering charge brought against Chakraborty by the late Bollywood star's father KK Singh, came across chats pertaining to drug consumption, procurement, usage and transportation in connection with the death case.
The NCB has so far arrested more than a dozen people including Rajput's household staff Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant.
However, in an interesting turn of events, a team of doctors from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had last week ruled out the murder theory of Rajput, who was found hanging at his own flat at Mumbai's Bandra in mid-June.
The AIIMS panel has reportedly agreed with the autopsy report of a Mumbai hospital which had found "asphyxia due to hanging" as the cause of the death.
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