06 September,2020 01:04 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Rhea Chakraborty arriving at the the Narcotics Control Bureau office in Mumbai. Pic: Yogen Shah
Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in connection with the drugs case linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The 28-year-old arrived at the the Narcotics Control Bureau office in the Ballard Estate area of Mumbai on Sunday morning.
The development comes a day after a Mumbai Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Esplanade Court remanded Rhea's brother Showik Chakraborty and Sushant's home manager Samuel Miranda to NCB custody for 4 days till September 9.
According to a report in IANS, a team of NCB had come to pick Rhea Chakraborty up from her home, but the 28-year-old beleaguered actress reportedly declined the lift and decided to go separately for her interrogation. The agency had summoned Rhea for questioning in ongoing investigation into the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
Earlier in the day, actor Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer Satish Maneshinde said that she is ready for arrest.
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"Rhea Chakraborty is ready for arrest as this is a witch-hunt. If loving someone is a crime she will face the consequences of her love. Being innocent, she has not approached any court for an anticipatory bail in all the cases foisted by Bihar Police with CBI, ED, and NCB," Maneshinde said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the count of those arrested in the case went up to eight on Saturday with the arrest of Sushant Singh Rajput's cook Dipesh Sawant. He joined the investigation on Friday at 10 pm and was subjected to interrogation and confrontation with Showik Chakraborty, Samuel Miranda, Zaid Vilatra and Kaizan Ibrahim.
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