On day 12 (1st September) of investigation, CBI grilled Rhea Chakraborty's parents for nearly 9 hours on Tuesday. While on the other hand, ED questioned hotelier Gaurav Arya for 9 hours, they have also clones his phone for further investigation. Talking about the third agency who is involved in the same case but with different angle i.e NCB detained two drug peddlers who confessed their links with Rhea's brother Showik Chakraborty.
As per India Today, apart from supplying drugs to Rhea Chakraborty and Showik they also used to supply drugs to other Bollywood celebs. The development came hours after sources claimed that four big names were under the lens in the probe related to the Sushant case, which included 2 politicians, 1 actor and 1 filmmaker, as per Republic.
Here's the timeline of the events that happened yesterday:
9:49 am:- CBI review meeting between CBI official probing Sushant death case and its Delhi team.
10:54 am:- Gaurav Arya reaches the ED office for interrogation.
11:10 am:- Rhea's parents reach DRDO guesthouse for questioning by CBI
11:17 am:- Siddharth Pithani reaches DRDO guesthouse for questioning
03:32 pm:- According to Republic, Siddharth Pithani told CBI that SSR was tensed after his ex-manager Disha Salian's death. When he learnt about her death he became unwell and remained tense. Because of this tension, he asked Siddharth to sleep in his room and kept asking him every single information about Disha's death.
Regarding Rhea, he told CBI that when he asked SSR about Rhea he started crying and said that everybody left me. Siddharth continued that the house was taken in December 2019, he got to know about this through house manager Samuel Miranda. He further added that when he inquired, he got to know that Rhea does a lot of shopping on SSR's credit card and not just this even the household items were being sold slowly.
04:16 pm:- NCB held 2 drug peddlers
05:56 pm:- NCB submits a list of 18 names active in the drug cartel to Mumbai Police
07:52 pm: Rhea's parents leave from DRDO office after almost 9 hours of questioning.
08:15 pm:- Gaurav Arya leaves from ED office
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