28 May,2021 12:13 PM IST | Mumbai | Vishal Singh
Sushant Singh Rajput. File pic
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's flatmate Siddharth Pithani from Hyderabad. Pithani, arrested in connection with drugs case linked to Sushant's death, has been sent to 5-day NCB custody.
Pithani has been questioned by the NCB and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for several days in the past.
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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.
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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.
Sushant Singh Rajput's body was found at his Bandra apartment on June 14, 2020.
