CBI grills Rhea Chakraborty for third day in a row in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case

Rhea Chakraborty, who is the center of investigations in Sushant's case, has already been summoned by the CBI.

New Delhi: The CBI investigation into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case is in full swing. Rhea Chakraborty, who is the center of investigations in Sushant's case, has already been summoned by the premier probe agency. She was interrogated for several hours on Friday and Saturday, respectively, and she was called for questioning again today.

Other close associates of Sushant - his flatmate Siddharth Pithani, cook Neeraj, house help Deepesh Sawant - and a few others are also being grilled by the CBI on a regular basis. Rhea's brother Showik Chakraborty is also under the CBI radar.

A drug angle has also been revealed in Sushant's case for which the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has already registered a criminal case against Rhea and others. The case has been registered under Sections 20, 22, 27 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. The NCB team is currently in Mumbai to probe the drug angle.

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30 August 2020

17:13 IST

Zee News has accessed an exclusive WhatsApp chat between Sushant's eldest sister Neetu Singh and his business manager Shruti Modi. The WhatsApp conversation between Neetu and Shruti took place on November 26, 2019. The screenshot of the chats shows that Shruti shared doctor's prescription of Sushant with Neetu, who had also stated that she wanted to see the doctor. 

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Gaurav Arya, who has been summoned by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, said that he had never met the actor. Gaurav is on his way to Mumbai from Goa. He is to appear before the ED on Monday. The ED is probing the money laundering angle in Sushant's death case. 

While speaking to the reporters, at the Goa airport, Gaurav Arya said, "I have no connection with the case. I never met Sushant Singh Rajput. I met her (Rhea Chakraborty) in 2017," news agency ANI reports.