Mumbai: Actress Rhea Chakraborty, arrested in a medication case associated with actor Sushant Singh Rajput‘s death, has mentioned in her bail plea filed within the Bombay Excessive Court docket that she is harmless and NCB is “intentionally” attempting to invoke stringent prices towards her. She additionally mentioned that she has been subjected to a “witch-hunt”.
In her bail application filed with HC on Tuesday, Chakraborty mentioned she is 28 years of age, and moreover the probe by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), she has been subjected to 3 extra investigations by police and central businesses, and a “simultaneous media trial”.
These probes refer to the ones conducted into Rajput's death by the Mumbai Police, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Chakraborty mentioned all of this has taken an “extreme toll on her psychological well being and properly-being”. Any additional custody will worsen her psychological well being, she mentioned in her plea filed via her lawyer Satish Maneshinde.
Her bail plea was scheduled to be heard by a single bench presided over by Justice Sarang Kotwal on Wednesday. Nonetheless, because the Excessive Court docket suspended the day’s hearings owing to heavy rains within the metropolis, the plea is more likely to be heard on Thursday.
Chakraborty additional mentioned in her plea that Rajput had been within the behaviour of consuming medication, notably, “ganja” since even earlier than she acquired right into a relationship with him. Whereas she would generally procure medication for him in “small portions”, and would additionally “often pay for them herself,” she was by no means part of any drug syndicate. She additionally mentioned Rajput was the one one who was consuming the mentioned medication. “The applicant (Chakraborty) is harmless and has not dedicated any crime in any way,” the plea mentioned.
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Moreover, if Rajput was alive right this moment, he would have been charged merely for the consumption of medication and would have invited the most sentence of only one yr, whereas she has been charged underneath sections imposing a most sentence of as much as 20 years, Chakraborty mentioned within the plea. On the same argument, final week on the opposite pleas, Justice Kotwal identified that the NDPS Act adopts an “empathetic strategy” in direction of the drug addict with a view in direction of his rehabilitation.
Nonetheless, it goals at ending all illicit trafficking of medication and subsequently carries stringent punishment for these concerned in procurement, financing and manufacturing of medicines. Earlier this month, a particular NDPS court docket within the metropolis rejected the bail pleas of the actress and her brother Showik Chakraborty, saying if set free on bail, they could tamper with the proof. The actress is presently lodged within the Byculla ladies’ jail within the metropolis. Rajput (34) was discovered hanging in his house in suburban Bandra on June 14.
(PTI REPORT)
