Rhea’s brother, Rajput’s house manager arrested
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is looking into the allegations of illegal drug use by the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his actor-girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, arrested Rhea’s brother Showik and Samuel Miranda, Rajput’s house manager, on Friday night. The deputy director of NCB said, “We have informed the families of Showik and Miranda and both have been arrested under several sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.” Officials raided Showik’s residence in Mumbai earlier in the day.
MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau, which is looking into allegations of illegal drug use by the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his actor-girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, arrested Rhea’s brother Showik and Sushant Singh Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda on Friday night.
Two others –Bandra residents Basit Parihar and Kaizan Ebrahim – were also arrested on Friday on charges of peddling drugs, taking the number of arrests in the case to seven.
KPS Malhotra, deputy director of NCB, said, “We have informed the families of Showik and Miranda and both have been arrested under several sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.”
Parihar was produced before a magistrate’s court which remanded him in NCB custody till September 9. Showik, Samuel and Ebrahim will be produced before a magistrate’s court on Saturday.
The other three arrested for drug peddling are Zaid Vilatra, 20 (arrested on Thursday), Abbas Lakhani, and Karan Arora (arrested on August 27-28).
Vilatra alleged he was in touch with Ebrahim and Parihar. Parihar allegedly told NCB that he used to procure drugs from Vilatra and Ebrahim, on the instructions of Chakraborty’s brother Showik who asked him to give it to Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda.
A senior IPS officer from NCB said, “We conducted searches at Miranda’s and Showik’s homes and collected some evidence. The investigation is at a preliminary stage and details of the evidence gathered can’t be revealed at the moment.”