Mumbai, December 02: After 3 months of his arrest, a special court granted bail to actor Rhea Chakraborty's brother Showik in drug-related charges in the Sushant Singh Rajput case.
The court granted bail citing a recent Supreme Court order which said that "confessional statements" made to the NCB officials cannot be considered as evidence.
Both Rhea and Showik were arrested by the NCB in a drug probe related to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. Showik has been in jail since 4 September, while Rhea Chakraborty was given bail by the Bombay High Court on 7 October.
NCB has arrested them after they conducted a raid at Showik and Miranda's residence in Santa Cruz (West) and suburban Andheri (West) respectively.
Both were booked under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. The sections pressed against them include sections 20(b) that deals with production, manufacture, possession, selling, purchase, and transport of cannabis, 28 (punishment for attempt to commit offences), 29 (punishment for abetment and criminal conspiracy), and 27(a) that defines punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offende
Showik Chakraborty has appealed for bail several times in the past few times in special court and as well as in the Bombay HC, which got rejected.