Actress Rhea Chakraborty will be in jail till October 6, a court in Mumbai said today as her judicial custody extended for another two weeks. She and her brother Showik Chakraborty have requested bail from the Bombay High Court, which will take it up tomorrow. Rhea Chakraborty was arrested on September 8 on drugs charges linked to the Sushant Singh Rajput death investigation. Meanwhile, Sushant Singh Rajput’s former talent manager Jaya Saha, in her questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), reportedly admitted to having chats over drugs with top actors in Bollywood. Jaya is an employee of KWAN Talent Management Agency, which manages several Bollywood bigwigs. Jaya is also being questioned based on her chats with Sushant’s purported girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty.
Jaya Saha and Shruti Modi have been summoned again on Wednesday by NCB. Shruti was asked to go for a Covid-19 test as a precautionary measure, since an NCB official had tested positive. Her report came out negative. She will join the investigation tomorrow. Celebrity manager Karishma Prakash has said through her lawyers that she is unwell and can’t join the probe. The NCB had summoned Karishma Prakash and a talent management agency’s CEO Dhurv Chitgopekar in connection with its probe into the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus.
On the other hand, the NCB will reportedly issue a summon to actor Sara Ali Khan during this week to record her statement in connection with the agency’s probe against the “drug syndicate” that supplied “narcotics to Bollywood”. According to the NCB sources, actor Rhea Chakraborty, arrested in the drugs case lodged in connection to the Sushant Singh Rajput death probe, had named her during her questioning by the agency between September 6 and 9. It did not specify in what connection Rhea had named her.
Rhea Chakraborty was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which are probing the money laundering and abetment to suicide angles respectively surrounding Rajput’s death. Rajput was found dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.
Meanwhile, The NCB on Monday questioned Jaya Saha and celebrity manager Shruti Modi in a drugs-related case for more than five hours. Saha was questioned for over five hours by NCB sleuths over alleged chats related to drugs. An NCB source said that Saha was also questioned about her drug chats with several other celebrities. Shruti Modi was questioned about drug usage by Sushant and Rhea.
