The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating the drug angle in connection with Sushant Singh Rajput's death, told the court during the remand hearing on Thursday that they need to interrogate drug peddler Zaid Vilatra custody so as to uproot drugs citadel in Mumbai.

'Seven days NCB custody'

The agency produced Vilatra before a metropolitan magistrate court, which remanded him to NCB's custody for seven days. "The NCB is investigating the drug angle in the case of Rajput's death and therefore, it is highly substantive and needs to be investigated thoroughly so as to uproot the drug citadel in Mumbai, and especially Bollywood," NCB told the court.