Siddhant Pithani paid for drugs through Sushant Singh Rajput’s bank account, calling it ‘puja samagri’: Report – Times of India

The Narcotics Control Bureau has submitted a draft charge to the special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances court where it is stated that Rhea Chakraborty received multiple deliveries of ganja from the co-accused, including her brother Showik, and these were handed over to Sushant Singh Rajput.

The draft names 35 accused in the alleged drugs case which was filed during the investigation into the untimely demise of Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020. According to The Indian Express, the NCB draft stated that in 2020, drugs were procured for Sushant by the accused, which includes his flatmate Siddharth Pithani, who reportedly “aided and abetted” the actor to “extreme drug addiction.” On instance from Sushant or Rhea, drugs were provided to the late actor, claims the NCB draft. The investigating agency has also reportedly stated that Pithani paid for the drugs through Sushant Singh Rajput’s bank account, calling it “puja samagri”. The report also stated that, NCB had claimed Agisilaos Demetriades, brother of Arjun Rampal’s partner Gabriella, had obtained banned substances from a Nigerian national “and circulated it in high society and Bollywood”.

The draft charges further read, “Rhea Chakroborty received many deliveries of ganja from accused Samuel Miranda, Showik, Dipesh Sawant and others and handed over those deliveries to the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput”. The actress apparently paid for those deliveries at the instance of Showik and Sushant, between March 2020 and September that year. The accused have been charged under relevant provisions of the NDPS Act, including sections 27 and 27A (financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) 28 (punishment for attempts to commit offences), 29 (whoever abets, or is a party to a criminal conspiracy), as per the draft charges.