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Sushant Singh Rajput Case: NCB Charges Rhea Chakraborty For Supplying Drugs to Rajput

Sentinel Digital Desk

MUMBAI: Rhea Chakraborty, girlfriend of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput has been named in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)'s draft chargesheet along with her brother Showvik in connection with Rajput's death in 2020.

In the draft charges, the NCB has mentioned the role of the deceased actor's then flatmate Siddharth Pithani who had "aided and abetted" Rajput to "extreme drug addiction."

The drugs for Rajput were procured in 2020 by Pithani, among other accused, the draft chargesheet states, adding that Pithani had bought the drugs for Rajput's consumption using the late actor's bank account, calling it "puja samagri."

Further, explaining the role of Rhea and her brother Showik in its draft chargesheet, the NCB stated that the duo was involved in buying drugs for Rajput, while Rhea received a few packages of marijuana in 2020 for Rajput's consumption.

The NCB has also named Agisilaos Demetriades, the brother of actor Arjun Rampal's partner, in the draft charges, while claiming that he had bought cocaine from a Nigerian and marijuana from two co-accused on many occasions "and circulated it in high society and Bollywood".

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