Rahul remanded to police custody

The police tonight put Rahul Mahajan through sustained interrogation after taking him on a two-day remand on charges of consumption and possession of drugs, and confronted him with Sahil Zaroo, who allegedly supplied him with narcotics on last Thursday night.

In another development, forensic reports confirmed presence of heroin in blood sample of Rahul and vomit of Sahil, while the police were still awaiting viscera report of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's aide Vivek Moitra, who died after a late night party at the Mahajan residence.

Amidst high drama, 31-year-old Rahul was wheeled away by the police under tight security, shortly after he was discharged from Apollo Hospital, where he was admitted after the party in a critical condition.

He was later produced before Metropolitan Magistrate A K Chaturvedi who remanded him to two days custody after the police claimed he had admitted in his disclosure statement to have consumed drugs, besides having "given" narcotics to others.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi district) Manish Agrawal said the investigation in the case was at a preliminary stage and the police wanted to question Rahul about the "whole episode and what happened after that."

He said the police had found evidence to prove that Moitra, Rahul and Sahil had consumed drugs at the residence of late BJP leader on June 1.

"Sahil and Rahul have been arrested, while Moitra died of drug consumption. We have established that all three of them had consumed drugs," he said.

The police questioned doctors of apollo hospital in their bid to understand the sequence of events and the exact medical condition of rahul when he was admitted.

They were also quizzed about the line of treatment for rahul and the standard operating procedures in treatment of drug abuse cases.

They were also asked about the reason behind their decision to make rahul's medical test records public when the matter was under investigation.