A Bollywood actress has been arrested on drug charges in the latest progression in an ongoing celebrity saga that has Indian audiences and made headlines for months.
Rhea Chakraborty, 28, arrested Tuesday through india’s Narcotics Control Office for allegedly buying hashish for her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput, one of Bollywood’s most important names, according to Mutha Ashok Jain, deputy director of the Narcotics Control Office for southwestErn India.
CNN has reached out to Chakraborty seeking comment.
Rajput, 34, was discovered dead in his Mumbai apartment in June in what police described as suicide. The Indian government carried out an autopsy, but did not make the result official. Mental fitness and suicide remain taboo in India.
Shortly after his death, Rajput’s father, KK Singh, filed a complaint with the police in Bihar, the Indian state where he lives, accusing Chakraborty, who is a lesser-known Bollywood star, of stealing cash from his bank account. her boyfriend and encourage her alleged The government did not provide the main points on how it has encouraged the suicide of Rajput.
Chakraborty has denied those allegations. “It is unhappy that we are in 2020 and in India, I still have to pay this value today just because I am in his life, that I enjoyed it and that I lived with it,” he said. he told CNN News Associate 18 last month.
According to a court document, Chakraborty and Rajput were living together, a few days before Rajput’s death, Chakraborty moved into his own home in Mumbai.
In August, a case based on the allegations by Rajput’s father was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation, a federal law enforcement agency, which told CNN on Wednesday that it was not commenting on the ongoing investigations.
In total, the government arrested 10 other people in connection with the case, adding Chakraborty, according to Jain of the Narcotics Control Office.
Chakraborty was on remand for 14 days for a variety of crimes, as well as shopping and drugs, Jain said. Authorities have not recovered any drugs from Chakraborty, who admitted to buying drugs for her boyfriend Rajput, according to Jain. These offences involve a 10-year criminal sentence and a fine of 100,000 rupees ($1,360).
Chakraborty has to be charged with a felony.
Although the government arrested 10 people, they did not qualify with helping the Rajput suicide.
“The case is about drugs . . . it is not our mandate to investigate the suicide,” Jain said. “The research is progressing and as we move forward we will review the harder paints and see all the paints on the network. “
For months, the death of the Rajput and the aftermath that followed won widespread politics in the Indian media. Despite the fact that the coronavirus outbreak in India is the second largest in the world, the media headlines have been ruled by the twists and turns of the Rajput affair.
But the politics have become sensational, with unverified conspiracy theories and accusations that have been broadcast on national television news.
Chakraborty paid the penalty for the media circus. In a tweet in July, Chakraborty pleaded with the Union Secretary of the Interior, Amit Shah, to open an investigation into the case. “I just need to see what pressures led Sushant to take this step,” he says.
In a press release earlier this month, the CBI said it was investigating the Rajput’s death in a “systematic and professional manner”.
“Some media reports attributed to CBI research are speculative and not fact-based,” CBI said in the statement.
Rajput made his film debut in Hindi in 2013 in “Kai Po Che!”, according to the film IMDb. He won the Best Actor (Male) award at the Melbourne Indian Film Festival in 2017 for his film “M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story,” in which he played Indian cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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