The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Narcotics Control Bureau to amend its plea — difficult the bail order of the Bombay High Court granting bail to actress Rhea Chakraborty and in addition the findings on the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in connection along with her involvement within the alleged drug case.
A 3-judge bench of the apex courtroom, headed by the Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde and comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, allowed the prayer of Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, showing for the NCB to amend its plea. The NCB had moved the highest courtroom not too long ago difficult the order of the Bombay High Court granting bail to Rhea within the alleged drug case.
“I am not against the grant of bail,” the Solicitor General stated. Pleading to the highest courtroom, Mehta stated: “Please allow me to amend the plea. We will challenge the bail order and also the findings on the NDPS Act.” He requested the highest courtroom to adjourn the matter for subsequent week.
“My worry is that the Bombay High Court had made certain wide-ranging observations, on the NDPS case (against her),” Mehta advised the courtroom in the course of the listening to. The Supreme Court requested Mehta: “You cannot file a petition against the Bombay High Court’s observations while hearing from the Bombay High Court had made certain findings and observations in the Rhea Chakraborty bail order case.”
“Kindly have it on Monday,” the SG requested the bench of the highest courtroom, to which, the CJI led bench adjourned the matter. The Bombay High Court had final yr in October, granted bail to Rhea who was arrested by the NCB on September 8 in reference to an alleged drugs-related case linked to the dying of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The Bombay High Court, whereas granting bail to the actress, had imposed a number of bail situations on her, together with that of depositing her passport with the NCB, and in addition had barred her from leaving the nation with out the prior permission of the particular courtroom attempting the alleged medicine case.
