Sushant Singh Rajput's flatmate Siddharth Pithani has been sent to 14-day judicial custody, in connection with the drugs case. Pithani was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on May 28. He was arrested from Hyderabad and brought to Mumbai on a transit warrant obtained from a local court there. According to the reports, he was booked under multiple sections of the NDPS Act, 1985.Sushant Singh Rajput’s roommate Siddharth Pithani was present in the Bandra residence of Sushant where he was found dead under mysterious circumstances on June 14 last year.
The former claimed that he was the first to see his dead body, having called the locksmith to open the door when the late actor did not answer calls on the day of his death. Pithani had previously been questioned multiple times by the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation, which are probing the case registered by Bihar Police, on Sushant's father KK Singh's complaint, against Rhea Chakraborty and the others. The NCB began probing the alleged use of drugs in some quarters in Bollywood after the death of Rajput (34) in June last year. The central agency started its probe on the basis of some WhatsApp chats having reference to drugs. The NCB had arrested Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, some staff members of Rajput and a few others under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Yesterday, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) summoned Sushant Singh Rajput's bodyguard for the second day in a row, in the drug case linked to the late actor's death.