NCB tells Supreme Court it is ‘not challenging’ bail granted to Rhea Chakraborty in drugs-related case

The Supreme Court was knowledgeable by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday that it was not difficult the bail granted to actor Rhea Chakraborty by the Bombay High Court within the circumstances registered towards her in reference to a drugs-related probe linked to the loss of life of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Also learn: Rhea Chakraborty recollects individuals labelling her after Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life: ‘Many things have been said about me’

What occurred within the Supreme Court 

Additional Solicitor General SV Raju informed a bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh that NCB is just not difficult the bail however the query of legislation must be saved open with regard to Section 27-A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

“We are not challenging the grant of bail but on the interpretation of section, please keep it open for consideration. Let the order not be a precedent also,” ASG informed the bench. The apex courtroom agreed and disposed of the federal government’s enchantment whereas additionally clarifying that the Bombay High Court order wouldn’t be handled as a precedent.

Charges towards Rhea Chakraborty

The apex courtroom was listening to the NCB’s petition towards the Bombay High Court order of October 2020 granting bail to Rhea Chakraborty, Sushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend. The NCB had charged Chakraborty below the stringent Section 27-A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act that pertains to “financing and harbouring illegal drug trafficking”.

The part entails imprisonment of as much as 10 years and a bar on grant of bail. The High Court had stated merely paying for a specific drug transaction doesn’t qualify as financing drug visitors.

Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, was discovered lifeless at his condo in suburban Bandra on June 14, 2020. After a case of alleged abetment to suicide was registered towards Rhea Chakraborty by Sushant’s mother and father, a parallel probe into alleged drug procurement by her additionally started on the premise of her WhatsApp chats.