New Delhi: Sushant Singh Rajput‘s friend Siddharth Pithani has been sent to 14-day judicial custody on Friday in reference to the drug case linked to the actor’s dying.
“Siddharth Pithani, late actor Sushant Singh Rajput`s friend, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody, in connection with drug case,” knowledgeable Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai.
On May 26, the NCB Mumbai unit arrested Sushant Singh Rajput`s flatmate Siddharth Pithani from Hyderabad and introduced him to Mumbai on a transit warrant obtained from an area court docket there.
Pithani was booked below a number of sections of the NDPS Act, 1985.Following his arrest, a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court docket in Mumbai on Friday remanded Pithani to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody until June 1.
Earlier on Thursday, the NCB summoned Sushant`s bodyguard for the second day in a row, in the drug case linked to the late actor`s dying.Apart from that NCB additionally arrested a drug peddler named Harish Khan in the medicine case linked to the actor`s dying.
The NCB had additionally probed Sushant`s former home helps– Neeraj and Keshav, on Sunday.The NCB, which has been probing the medicine angle in the actor`s dying case, began the investigation after it obtained official communication from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), in which there have been numerous chats associated to drug consumption, procurement, utilization and transportation.
The ED had on July 31 final yr registered an Enforcement Case Information Report in the late actor`s dying case after a First Information Report (FIR) was filed by Rajput`s father KK Singh in opposition to actor Rhea Chakraborty in Bihar on July 28.Sushant Singh Rajput was discovered useless at his Mumbai residence on June 14 final yr.
