NCB had sought 7-day custody of Showik and Miranda for further interrogation
Showik Chakraborty and Samuel Miranda with NCB sleuths. Pic/Shadab Khan
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which had arrested actress Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik and Sushant Singh Rajput's house manager Samuel Miranda, produced them at Mumbai's Esplanade Court on Saturday.
Showik and Miranda have been sent to NCB custody till September 9 by the 64th Metropolitan Magistrate. The duo were brought to the court after a medical checkup at a Sion hospital.
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Meanwhile, drug peddler Kaizan Ibrahim, who was earlier sent to 14-day judicial custody, was granted bail.
NCB had sought 7-day custody of Showik and Miranda for further interrogation. Lawyer Satish Maneshinde appeared for remand proceedings of Showik.
Showik and Miranda were arrested on Friday after a day-long questioning by NCB as part of its probe into the drug angle in the Bollywood star's death.
According to NCB officials, the duo was arrested after 10 hours of questioning, and after the agency got adequate evidence against them about their involvement in the drug case.
They have been arrested under several sections of the NDPS Act, including 20(b), 28, 29, 27(A). The official said that the offences falling under Section 27 of the NDPS Act are non-bailable.
The arrest came after it was found that Showik used to order the drugs from another arrested accused Abdel Basit Parihar. Parihar was arrested on Thursday evening and sent to the agency's custody till September 9.
An NCB official said that the agency will seek Showik and Miranda's custody for interrogation and to confront them with the other arrested accused.
The official said that the duo will also be grilled over information from laptops and chats obtained by the agency.
According to NCB, Showik used to order ganja and marijuana from drug-peddler Parihar and make payments to him over Google Pay.
The NCB registered a case on August 26 under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, naming Rhea, her brother, talent manager Jaya Saha, Sushant's co-manager Shruti Modi, and Goa-based hotelier Gaurav Arya, after the Enforcement Directorate wrote to it about the drugs angle.
This followed discovery of WhatsApp messages between Rhea and Shruti Modi, Miranda and Sushant's flatmate Siddharth Pithani.
NCB is the third Central agency to join the probe into the death case of Sushant, after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the ED.
Earlier on Friday, the NCB also carried out searches at the residences of Rhea, Showik and Miranda. They also seized Showik's laptop and mobile phone.
(With inputs from agency)
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