Rhea Chakraborty on Monday appeared before the NCB for questioning for the second straight day in the drugs case linked to the death

Mumbai: Rhea Chakraborty on Monday appeared before the NCB for questioning for the second straight day in the drugs case linked to the death of her live-in partner and actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

She was questioned for about six hours by the agency for the first time in this case on Sunday.

Rhea Chakraborty She arrived at the agency's office in the Ballard Estate area around 9:30 am.

The agency has said that it wants to question Rhea and confront her with her younger brother Showik Chakraborty, Rajput's house manager Samuel Miranda and his house staffer Dipesh Sawant to ascertain their roles in this alleged drug racket after it obtained mobile phone chat records and other electronic data that suggested some banned drugs were allegedly procured by these people.

Officials said the actor was questioned on these lines on Sunday. She was earlier questioned by the ED and the CBI.

Rhea Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput

Rhea, in interviews given to multiple TV news channels, has said that she has never consumed drugs herself. She had, however, claimed that the late actor used to consume marijuana.

A total of eight people have been arrested till now by the NCB with six being directly linked to this probe while two were arrested by it when the investigation was launched under criminal sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.