Rhea Chakraborty’s Arrest “Essential Step”, Says Bihar Authorities

Patna:

The ruling NDA in Bihar on Tuesday asserted that Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest by Narcotics Management Bureau was “an essential step” within the course of securing justice for Patna-born actor Sushant Singh Rajput whose dying has struck an emotional chord with the individuals of the state.

The JD(U)-BJP alliance additionally lambasted the actress for lodging a “baseless” FIR in opposition to the sisters of the lifeless actor and questioned the “help” prolonged to her by the Uddhav Thackeray authorities in Maharashtra, for “causes the Shiv Sena is aware of higher”.

Bihar police chief Gupteshwar Pandey additionally reacted with an air of vindication on the event.

“Rhea has lastly been arrested. We now have been searching for a CBI inquiry into the case because the very starting because the Maharashtra authorities and the Mumbai police appeared intent on driving the probe in a incorrect course.”

“ED too has lodged a case in opposition to the actress and investigations appear to have opened a can of worms”, BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand mentioned in an announcement.

He expressed confidence that the CBI will finally crack the case and guarantee justice for the late actor.

On Rhea Chakraborty submitting an FIR in opposition to Sushant Rajput’s sisters, Mr Anand mentioned, “Rhea Chakraborty has uncovered herself by doing this. The event flies within the face of her professed love for the actor, whose father had leveled critical allegations in opposition to the actress within the FIR he had lodged at Patna.”

The BJP spokesman, whose celebration had been an ally of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra for greater than twenty years till the exit of the Uddhav Thackeray-led celebration from the NDA final yr, additionally launched a stinging assault on its spokesman Sanjay Raut.

“Within the Sena mouthpiece Saamna, Raut had been popping out in help of Chakraborty and making appalling observations in regards to the bereaved household of Rajput. This exhibits that the Shiv Sena didn’t need that the reality be out within the case, for causes it is aware of higher”, he added.

The JD(U), headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, additionally expressed satisfaction over the arrest of the actress and mentioned it hoped that the investigations will wipe Bollywood clear of many ills that plague the Hindi movie trade.

“Our authorities agreed to launch an investigation and, later hand it over to the CBI, as a result of the bereaved father had requested the identical and likewise in view of the truth that the probe going down in Mumbai didn’t encourage religion.”

“The CBI inquiry has nearly uncovered the darkish underbelly of Bollywood, together with the shut hyperlinks between narcotics merchants and celebrities”, JD(U) spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad mentioned.

Mr Prasad additionally mentioned that Chakrabroty’s FIR, lodged just a few hours forward of her arrest and accusing the Sushant Rajput’s sisters of administering narcotics to him had been ample proof that “she is rattled by the CBI inquiry and the implications it might have for her given her suspected complicity”.

The NDAs one other accomplice in Bihar, Lok Janshakti Get together, additionally hailed the arrest of the actress.

LJP president Chirag Paswan, who was among the many first politicians in Bihar to demand a CBI probe into the dying of the actor, tweeted, “NCB at this time arrested Rhea Chakraborty in a narcotics matter. This growth would silence all those that had been standing in her help”.

Mr Paswan additionally added the hashtagjusticeforSushantSinghRajput.

The 34-year-old actor was discovered hanging from the ceiling of his Bandra residence on June 14. Greater than a month later, an FIR was lodged on the native police station right here by his father KK Singh who resides in Rajiv Nagar locality of town.

Investigation launched by the Bihar police had raised the hackles of the administration in Maharashtra the place the federal government got here out in help of Rhea Chakraborty’s rivalry, made earlier than the Supreme Courtroom, that because the dying had taken place within the western state, the actors house state had no jurisdiction within the matter.

Issues reached a flashpoint when an IPS officer from Patna, who was despatched to Mumbai to move the investigating staff, was forcibly quarantined hours after touchdown within the metropolis, in a transfer that was seen as an try to sabotage the investigation.

Exasperated over the stalemate, Mr Singh requested that the probe be handed over to the CBI, which was promptly granted by the Nitish Kumar authorities.

Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey who has ruffled many feathers within the current previous along with his outspokenness, reacted with an air of vindication.

“Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest proves that she has some hyperlinks with drug peddlers and that she will not be with out blemishes. Furthermore, the Mumbai police carried out its investigation in a fashion that might not encourage religion and after we tried to probe the matter hurdles had been put in our means.”

“I’m now assured that the thriller surrounding the dying of Sushant can be unfolded and fact will come out,” he mentioned.