Anti-Drugs Agency Asks High Court To Cancel Showik Chakraborty’s Bail

Mumbai:

The Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) has approached the Bombay Excessive Courtroom looking for cancellation of bail granted to Showik Chakraborty, brother of actor Rhea Chakraborty, in a medicine case probed by the company following the dying of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

In its plea filed within the excessive courtroom final month, the NCB stated the particular courtroom listening to circumstances associated to the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act had ignored earlier observations made by the HC and erred in granting bail to Showik Chakraborty and different accused within the case.

In October final 12 months, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom had rejected Showik Chakraborty’s bail, however granted bail to Rhea Chakraborty, accused in the identical case.

The NCB stated in its plea earlier than the excessive courtroom that the particular courtroom had failed to contemplate the HC’s remark that Showik Chakraborty gave the impression to be related with the opposite accused within the case, from whom industrial amount of contraband had been recovered.

It stated that it was probably that out on bail, Showik Chakraborty would take pleasure in comparable actions.

Showik Chakraborty was remanded to judicial custody on September 9, 2020. The particular courtroom had rejected his first bail utility on September 11, 2020 and on October 7, the Bombay HC refused to grant him bail.

He then filed one other bail utility earlier than the particular courtroom, which allowed it on December 12 final 12 months. The NCB’s plea within the excessive courtroom is prone to be taken up for listening to on March 30.