Man in NCB custody over drug links to Sushant Singh case

A court in Mumbai gave the Narcotics Control Bureau custody of Zaid Vilatra in connection with drug peddling in the case linked to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Mumbai: A suspected contraband dealer was taken into custody by the Narcotics Control Bureau after an order from a court in Mumbai.

Zaid Vilatra, 21, was arrested in connection with the drugs case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Vilatra was produced before a metropolitan magistrate's court which remanded him in NCB's custody for seven days for further probe in the case. The NCB on Wednesday said it arrested him and Basit Parihar in connection with drug trafficking.

Indian currency worth Rs 9,55,750 and foreign currency (USD 2,081, 180 British Pounds, 15 dirhams), which the NCB claimed are "proceeds of drug peddling", were recovered from Vilatra, officials said.

"Zaid disclosed that he runs an eatery in Bandra which was not giving any pecuniary gains since lockdown. He also disclosed that he is into drug peddling, especially bud, through which he used to earn a substantial amount of money," the NCB said. Parihar, a resident of suburban Bandra, is "learnt to have linkages" with the narcotics case registered against Rajput's girlfriend and actress Rhea Chakraborty and others, officials said.

The role of the actress's brother Showik Chakraborty and his purported links with people nabbed by NCB are under the scanner of the agency, they said.

PTI report