NCB summons Rhea, to be grilled with Showik

The NCB on Saturday has also arrested Sushant’s house help Dipesh Sawant

A day after arrest of actress Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik and late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s former house manager Samuel Miranda, the NCB arrested house help Dipesh Sawant on Saturday.

Showik and Miranda have been remanded to the NCB custody till September 11 in connection with the narcotics angle pertaining to the actor’s suicide probe.

The central agency sent summons to Rhea for questioning next week after Showik claimed to be acting at her behest and the procuring drugs. The officials are also probing the mode of payment used for obtaining the narcotics substances.

The investigators said that the probe in the case has revealed debit and credit card transactions. The details of the debit and credit cards are being investigated to ascertain whom did they belong to and how many such transactions were done in the past. The officials said that they would grill Showik and he would be confronted with Rhea in a joint questioning session of the NCB.

The revelation has also hinted towards the possibility of her passing on the contraband to others, including celebrities, identities of whom are yet to be established.

“NCB is a national probe agency and we wouldn’t shirk the responsibility. We are discussing evidence with the public prosecutor and all those found involved will be picked,” said Mutha Ashok Jain, deputy DG of NCB.

On Friday, the NCB raided Rhea Chakraborty’s and house manager Samuel Miranda’s residences in connection with the ongoing case. They seized their laptops, mobile phones and several documents. The agency also took custody of Abdul Basit Parihar, who was allegedly in direct contact with Rhea’s brother