On Tuesday, actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai under charges outlined by the Narcotics Drugs ...
On Tuesday, actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai under charges outlined by the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. She is the eighth person to be arrested in relation to the investigation into the death on June 14 of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, with whom she had a relationship.
Her arrest comes after three consecutive days of interrogation by the Narcotics Control Bureau, during which Chakraborty admitted to procuring drugs for Rajput, the Bureau told the court. Satish Maneshinde, Chakraborty’s lawyer called her arrest a “travesty of justice”.
“Three central agencies hounding a single woman just because she was in love with a drug addict who was suffering from mental health issues for several years and committed suicide due to consumption of illegally administered medicines, drugs,” Maneshinde said in a statement.
Though drugs and addiction are fundamentally intertwined, the word “addiction” does not appear in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) of India under which she has been arrested. The NDPS Act is India’s primary piece of parliamentary legislature around drug use, and pertains to the possession, sale, purchase, production and use of narcotic or psychotropic substances.
The Narcotics Control Bureau was established under the Act in 1986, and was designed...
