In a new development in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, actor Rhea Chakraborty has revealed before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) that she used to smoke cigarettes filled with marijuana (ganja) with her actor boyfriend. According to a report in Zee News, during the investigation, Rhea told the NCB that she used to smoke drug-filled cigarettes with late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Rhea also claimed during interrogation that Sushant was consuming drugs since 2016. Reports say that the gadgets recovered from Rhea's home revealed that her drugs circle was highly active in 2017, 2018, 2019. NCB has also reportedly learned that several big names of Bollywood are spotted in these photographs and videos.
Rhea has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Pyschotropic Substances Act under section 8(c) which deals with possession and purchase, 20B (II) for possession, purchase and transporting, 27 for financing illicit traffic, 28 for attempt to commit offences, and 29 for abetment and criminal conspiracy. Rhea is the tenth person to be arrested in the NCB’s probe into drug use involving Rajput. The remand application said Rhea’s brother Showik has revealed that he facilitated delivery of drugs through peddlers Basit Parihar, Kaizan Ibrahim and Zaid Vilatra. Showik is accused of organising weed (marijuana) for Sushant between September 2019 and March 2020. There are chat messages between Rhea, Showik and Samuel involving discussions of procurement of drugs. According to reports, her lawyer, Satish Maneshinde is likely to move sessions court for bail on Wednesday. He termed her arrest a “travesty of justice”. Rhea faces a minimum punishment of 10 years in jail and maximum of 20 years and a fine not less than Rs 1 lakh.