Narcotics Control Bureau arrested Siddharth Pithani in a drug case involving the demise of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in Hyderabad on Friday.
Siddharth was Sushant’s inventive supervisor and flatmate and he was interrogated for the primary time by the Mumbai police a couple of days after his demise. Pithani was employed by Sushant to work on a mission in 2018. The Mumbai Police mentioned that Pithani knew that Sushant had been given medicine for despair, however had stopped taking these medication within the days of his demise.
At that point, a senior police officer advised The Indian Express, “Pithani told us that he did not know the reason for Rajput being depressed. As he was staying at Rajput’s house, however, he had heard the actor’s staff saying that he had stopped taking drugs in the last few weeks as he felt better. “
According to the PTI report, Pithani despatched an e-mail to Mumbai Police In which he mentioned that he was being “pressurized by Rajput’s family to record a statement against his girlfriend Riya Chakraborty.”
Sidharth Enforcement Directorate additionally questioned Pithani In reference to the investigation into the cash laundering case associated to the demise of the actor.
When the CBI took up the case, Pithani was questioned by him in August on the DRDO Guest House in Kalina in Santacruz, Mumbai. The CBI had taken Pithani, cook dinner Neeraj Singh and home assist Dipesh Sawant from June 14 to reconstruct the occasions on the late actor’s residence.
The Indian Express reported in September that in an interrogation session, Sushant’s girlfriend Riya Chakraborty “first encountered Pithani.”
Siddharth Pithani was reportedly current on the actor’s residence when he was discovered useless.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
