A special NDPS court on Wednesday granted bail to Rhea Chakrbaorty’s brother Showik Chakraborty after almost three months of his arrest. Both Showik and Rhea were arrested in a drug case which was linked to the death case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The information was shared by ANI in a tweet that read, Special NDPS Court grants bail to Showik Chakraborty (Rhea Chakraborty’s brother) in a drugs case registered by Narcotics Control Bureau.”
While Rhea was granted conditional bail on October 7, Showik’s bail plea was rejected and he was sent to judicial custody.
Showik had moved to the special NDPS court after his bail plea was rejected by Bombay High Court. In his plea, the 20-year-old had said that no commercial quantity of drugs was seized from during the investigation and he was being “falsely accused”.
“In the facts and circumstances of the present case, given that no commercial quantity has been alleged in respect of the applicant, there has been no recovery from the applicant and that all allegations pertain only to small quantities, the embargo imposed by Section 37 of the NDPS Act, 1985 would not be applicable,” the bail application read.
“The allegations against the applicant (Showik) will at the most make out a case of purchase of small quantities of drugs, which is in essence a bailable offence. There is not a shred of evidence to connect the applicant with the financing of any illicit traffic or harbouring any offenders and hence the ingredients of Section 27 of the NDPS Act, 1985 are not made out in the present facts and circumstances,” it added.
The drug case came into light during Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
Rhea, in her statement, had claimed that Suhsant was involved in frequent consumption of drugs even as she asked him to get rid of it on multiple occasions. Showik, in his bail plea, also said that there are electronic evidence to show that Rhea was trying to get rid of Sushant’s habit by restricting the doses he could access.
