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Narcotics Control Bureau arrests SSR flatmate Sidharth Pithani in drug case

In a major action, the bureau on Friday said it had arrested Sidharth Pithani, flatmate of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in a drug-related case

Sushant Singh Rajput

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput | Photo: Twitter

IANS Mumbai/Hyderabad

In a major action, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday said that it has arrested Sidharth Pitani, flatmate of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in a drug related case.

"Pithani has been arrested from Hyderabad," an NCB official told IANS.

The arrest comes almost two and half months after it filed a 12,000-page charge sheet against 33 people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and others in the Bollywood-drugs mafia probe case linked to Sushant's death on June 14, 2020, when he was found hanging in his flat.

On March 5, the NCB charge sheet was filed before a Mumbai Special NDPS Court, following two cases registered by the drug law enforcement agency after an intimation from the Enforcement Directorate which was probing the financial angles in Sushant's death.

 

--IANS

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First Published: May 28 2021 | 1:12 PM IST

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