NCB charges Rhea Chakraborty with abetting Sushant Singh Rajput's extreme drug addiction
India Today
The NCB has filed draft charges in the drug case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, in which it has stated that Rhea Chakraborty procured contraband and abetted his "extreme drug addiction".
Actor Rhea Chakraborty has been charged by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) with allegedly procuring contraband for actor Sushant Singh Rajput and abetting his "extreme drug addiction".
Sushant Singh Rajput who was found dead at his residence on June 14, 2020. In its probe into the drug case linked to his death, the NCB has brought in a total of 38 charges against 35 accused in the case.
The draft charges handed over by the NCB to the special court under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act gives details of charges against each accused.
For actor Rhea Chakraborty, then girlfriend of Sushant Singh Rajput, the draft charges state, “That in pursuance of aforesaid criminal conspiracy or otherwise, you accused no. 10 Rhea Chakroborty received many deliveries of ganja from Samuel Miranda, Showik Charoborty and Dipesh Sawant and others and handed over those deliveries to Actor late Sushant Singh Rajput and made payments for those deliveries at the instance Showik & Late Sushant Singh Rajput during the period March 2020 to September 2020.”
The draft charges state that Chakraborty has thus committed offence under section 8[c] read with 20[b][ii]A, 27A,28, 29 & 30 of NDPS Act 1985.
Section 8c of the act deals with “produce, manufacture, possess, sell, purchase, transport, warehouse, use, consume, import inter-State, export inter-State, import into India, export from India or tranship any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, except for medical or scientific purposes.”
Section 20[b][ii]A deals with accused who have dealt with small quantity of drugs and describes that the sentence here is of rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both.
