Sushant Singh Rajput Death Case: ED writes to NCB to probe drug angle | UPDATES

Deleted WhatsApp chats from Rhea Chakraborty’s mobile phone reveal that the ‘Jalebi actress might have been involved in drug dealings.

Keshav leaves from DRDO  after 11 hours of investigation

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the money laundering charges into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has sought the help of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to check the drug syndicate connection.

A top ED source related to the probe said that the financial probe agency has written to NCB, seeking their guidance in the drug angle in the case. The source said that the agency wants to understand if there was some drug syndicate angle involved in the case of the late actor, who was found dead at his Bandra flat in Mumbai on June 14.

The ED has registered a case of money laundering on the basis of the Bihar Police FIR on July 31 on the complaint of Sushant's father K.K. Singh. The agency has already recorded the statement of Sushant's father, his sisters Priyanka Singh, Meetu Singh in connection with the case.

Choreographer Ganesh Hiwarkar, a friend of Sushant Singh Rajput, and Ankit Acharya, ex-manager of the late actor, have allegedly been threatened for speaking to the media, and have sought protection. When IANS reached out to Ganesh on Tuesday, the choreographer informed: "Yes we have received threats. We just want to stay alert and cautious now. Till now we are safe. Ankit is staying with me now."

Earlier on Tuesday, Ganesh had written on his unverified Twitter account: "Need protection for me and Ankit."

On Tuesday, netizens trended a hashtag on Twitter demanding that culprits in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case be put behind bars.Throughout the day, #SSRCulpritsBehindBar kept trending on Twitter with tweets claiming foul play in Sushant's death, and demanding that culprits be arrested.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summons two Mumbai Police personnel-Bhushan Belnekar, the investigating officer in #SushantSinghRajput's death case and a sub-inspector from Bandra Police Station

"Delay in post-mortem can happen especially in the times of COVID-19. In my view if you have consumed something and you are alive for a certain number of hours then only it gets mixed with the blood stream but in this case if you die in a few hours nothing would go in the blood stream as nothing can be consumed so I don't think the delay would have impacted so much but in any case the post-mortem says that it has found nothing in the stomach and that is pretty disturbing," said family lawyer and senior advocate Vikas Singh.

Sandip Shridhar, Sushant Singh Rajput's Chartered Accountant leaves the DRDO guest house in Mumbai, where the CBI team investigating the actor's death case is staying.

CBI team reaches Mumbai's Cooper Hospital.

-Paras Kothari

CBI summons DCP Abhishek Trimukhe for questioning in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. 

-Atul Singh

CBI met ED officers in Mumbai last evening. ED officers have briefed CBI on the financial angle. Phone data dump analysis has been shared with CBI.

-Rajesh

The call details of Sandip Ssingh also revealed that he called the ambulance driver Akshay 4 times from June 14 to June 16.

Sandip Ssingh was not in touch with the late actor from last one year, reveals his shocking phone call details. He is now underground and now it seems that he will be on the radar of CBI.

-Rajesh

AIIMS doctors to study late actor's autopsy and viscera report today and will hand over the report to CBI on Friday.

Late actor's accountant Rajat Mewati arrives for questioning

CBI summons Rhea Chaktaborty's close associate Samuel Miranda who was the house manager of Sushant Singh Rajput. He is likely to appear for questioning today.

Sushant Singh Rajput's Chartered Accountant Sandip Shridhar arrives at the DRDO guest house for questioning.

Siddharth Pithani, Sushant Singh Rajput's flatmate and Neeraj, who was working as a cook at Sushant's residence, arrive at DRDO guest house, where CBI team investigating the actor's death case, is staying.

A team of Mumbai Police team has reached the DRDO guesthouse. Since Mumbai Police was the first one to interrogate Sushant Singh Rajput's case, CBI wants to seek information about the matter from them.

An old video from the early 2000s featuring filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt with the late actress Jiah Khan has broken the internet. The video, said to be from 2004, has Jiah cozying up to Bhatt and sharing a laugh.

Watch the video here

Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Shweta Singh Kirti shares throwback pictures with her the late actor from her wedding ceremonies and writes, "In some realm, we will always be together...#GudiaGulshan. I will try and find video from my Sangeet and upload it." She also shared a video from her wedding reception, "Bhai at my wedding reception, giving me a hug. I remember a day prior to the reception how we had hugged and cried, I wish I could just go back in time."

The CBI will carry out Sushant's psychological autopsy.in their CFSL lab. This will be the third time for CBI to conduct a psychological autopsy. in any murder/suicide case. Prior to Sushant's case, such autopsy was done in the case of  Burari family and Sunanda Pushkar's death.

CBI's forensic team will study Sushant's brain in the psychological autopsy. They will also go through each and every social media post shared by Sushant along with his diaries and WhatsApp conversations.

Furthermore, information about Sushant'sbehavior will be obtained from the actor's family and friends.

(Reported by Atul Bhatia)