Siddharth Pithani’s NCB custody has been prolonged until June 4 in a drug case associated to demise case of Sushant Singh Rajput. Siddharth Pithani was Sushant Singh Rajput’s buddy and likewise ex-flatmate of the late actor at his Bandra residence in Mumbai.
Mumbai court docket on Tuesday prolonged the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody of Siddharth Pithani, linked to the Bollywood actor’s demise final 12 months.
Earlier on Sunday, the NCB questioned two former home staff of Sushant Singh Rajput, Neeraj and Keshav within the case. The anti-drugs company had issued summons in opposition to the duo, for questioning.
Among the prime suspects within the case, Pithani was absconding since lengthy, however was arrested by the NCB in a joint operation with its Hyderabad workplace on Wednesday, May 26.
The different co-accused in the identical case, Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant, had spilled the beans on Pithani of their statements, claiming he was in direct with not solely Rajput, but in addition with actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty, who have been additionally arrested within the case final 12 months.
Pithani’s arrest got here practically 3 months after the NCB filed a cost sheet within the Sushant case earlier than a Mumbai particular court docket on March 5, naming 33 individuals together with the Chakraborty siblings and plenty of others.
A former flat-mate of Sushant, Pithani was among the many earliest individuals who had seen the actor’s physique discovered hanging in his Bandra residence on June 14, 2020, because the demise sparked off a nationwide political furore.
Pithani, who didn’t honour earlier summonses by the NCB, has been booked underneath numerous sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act.
Sushant was discovered lifeless in his Bandra residence final 12 months on June 14. His demise case is at the moment being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
