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Rhea instrumental in procuring, financing drugs: NCB in SSR case
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Rhea instrumental in procuring, financing drugs: NCB in SSR case
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Mumbai, March 5 (TIWN) The first charge sheet filed in the drugs case probe into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has mentioned briefly about the role of his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty for being instrumental in procuring and financing the drugs.

The NCB filed a 11,700 pages charge sheet in the court here earlier in the day.

 
The official said: "Rhea was instrumental in procuring and financing drugs."
 
He said that Rhea's financial transactions have been corroborated in the case.
 
The official pointed out that the cash transactions of Rhea and then digital transfers have been mentioned in the charge sheet corroborating the use of the money for procuring and financing drugs.
 
The official also said that Rhea's brother, Showik Chakraborty has also been named in the charge sheet and his relations with drug peddlers Basit Parihar and Zayed along with the drug delivering incidents have been collaborated with Whatsapp chats and financial transactions.
 
To a question if the drug-law enforcement agency has named Bollywood biggies like Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Kha, Shradhha Kapoor and Rakul Preet Singh, the official said that they have not been named in the charge sheet.
 
Citing the reason for not mentioning their names in the charge sheet, the official explained that as their statement was "disclosure based".
 
Besides Rhea and Showik, the NCB has named 31 more people in its first charge sheet that it filed in the court. The official said that the late actor's ex-manager Samuel Miranda, his house help Dipesh Sawant, drug peddler Anuj Keshwani, from whom commercial quantity of drugs (LSD sheets and marijuana) were first recovered, figure in the charge sheet.
 
There are two foreign nationals Agisilaos Demetriades, the brother of actor Arjun Rampal's South African girlfriend and model Gabriella Demetriades, besides Kshitij Prasad, a former executive producer connected with Dharma Productions and two college students who are said to be the last mile peddlers, have also been named.
 
The siblings. Rhea and Showik, have not reacted to the new development in the case.
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