A special court in Mumbai is expected to pronounce its order on Friday on bail pleas filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik

Mumbai: A special court in Mumbai is expected to pronounce its order on Friday on bail pleas filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and three others, in the drug case linked to Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.

Rhea, Showik and others have been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the probe.

Rhea Chakraborty

The NCB arrested Rhea on Tuesday, after three days of interrogation, on charges of procuring drugs for Sushant.

In her bail application, Rhea has alleged that during her interrogation by the NCB, she was “coerced” into making “self-incriminating confessions”. She claimed that she has not committed any crime whatsoever and has been falsely implicated in the case.

Besides Rhea and Showik, the NCB has also arrested Sushant’s house manager Samuel Miranda. The NCB had earlier said that Rhea, in her statement revealed about her involvement in the procurement of drugs and financial transactions and also her instructions to other accused, Samuel Miranda, Sushant’s domestic help Dipesh Sawant and Showik in this regard.

Rhea Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput

“Therefore, it is clear from her statement that Rhea is an active member of the drug syndicate connected with drug supplies,” the agency said.

The NCB is probing the drug angle in this case under criminal sections of the NDPS Act after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) shared with it a report following the cloning of two mobile phones of Rhea.

Various angles surrounding the death of the Sushant Singh Rajput are being probed by three federal agencies- the NCB, the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).