With the drug angle probe in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case getting wider day by day, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has intensified interrogation of the suspects. The sleuths of the NCB have so far questioned scores of individuals including Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty.
After taking Zaid Vilatra’s custody, the agency has now managed to get custody of Dipesh Sawant, the domestic helper of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in the drug related probe.
NCB on Sunday got 3 days custody of Sawant till 9th September. Sawant was arrested late on Saturday, hours after the NCB secured custody till September 9 of Showik Chakraborty, brother of Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea, and the late actor’s house manager Samuel Miranda.
The three — Showik, Miranda and Sawant — were nabbed after the agency contended it had got sufficient evidence against them about their involvement in the drugs case.
Showik’s arrest came after another accused Abdel Basit Parihar who revealed that Showik used to procure drugs through him.
Described by NCB as an ‘active member’ of a drug syndicate with high profile customers and narcotics suppliers, Parihar told the NCB that he purchased the drugs from other accused — Kaizen Ebrahim and Zaid Vilatra — on instructions from Showik.
Along with Showik, Miranda and Sawant, Parihar (who was arrested on September 3) was also sent to NCB custody till September 9.
Following a request by the Enforcement Directorate, on August 26, the NCB registered a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act), naming Rhea, Showik, talent manager Jaya Saha, Sushant’s co-manager Shruti Modi, and a Goa-based hotelier Gaurav Arya, to unravel the drugs angle.
