Sushant Singh Rajput case: Drug peddler Zaid Bilatra, Abdul Basit Parihar retract their statements, ‘Were forcefully recorded by Narcotics Control Bureau’

NCB claimed that that Zaid Vilatra and Abdel Basit Parihar, supplied marijuana to Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda and domestic help Dipesh Sawant.

The two inculpated arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau, the agency probing the drugs angle in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case, have retracted their statements given to the agency, officials said.

The NCB had declared that Zaid Vilatra and Abdul Basit Parihar, residents of Bandra in Mumbai, supplied marijuana to Rajput’s house manager Samuel Miranda and domestic help Dipesh Sawant.

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The agency arrested Showik, brother of prime accused Rhea Chakraborty, based on the statements of these two accused. Both Vilatra and Parihar have claimed that their statements were forcefully recorded by NCB officials.

The NCB had claimed that Parihar, the alleged drug peddler, had mentioned to them that he obtained drugs from Vilatra and Ebrahim, on Showik’s instructions. He also claimed Showik told him to give drugs to Miranda. The NCB officials had also said that Showik’s phone messages include one in which he asked Miranda to pay Vilatra Rs 10,000 for 5 gm of ‘bud’, a curated form of marijuana.

For the moment, Rhea Chakraborty is interrogated again by the NCB. She reached the agency’s office in South Mumbai at 9.30 am on Monday. Chakraborty was questioned for nearly six hours on Sunday.