NCB Releases Showik's Drug Connection With Drug Peddler Zaid Vilatra.

Left- Drug Peddler Zaid Vilatra. Right- Rhea and Showik Chakraborty

Sushant's family lawyers Vikas Singh has called out negative campaign by certain news channels against the family. In the press conference on Wednesday, he clarified that the Bollywood actor had no life insurance as claimed by certain media. Singh also highlighted that the actor had no mental illness and his mental health was affected only after meeting Rhea Chakraborty in 2016.

[In a huge development, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has found strong evidence that exposes Showik Chakraborty's link to drug peddlers in Mumbai, as his call records and drug chats were accessed by the investigative agency, sources said.

The NCB-accessed CDR records and chats of Rhea's brother revealed that Showik had introduced Zaid - the drug peddler arrested on Tuesday by the NCB in Mumbai - to Sushant's house manager Samuel Miranda, via a text dated March 17, 2020.

Zaid, one among the two peddlers arrested by the NCB on Tuesday, confessed to have known Showik Chakraborty and having supplied drugs to him in the past. Their middleman Basit has also been arrested by the investigative agency.

According to the CDR records and chats accessed by the NCB, Samuel Miranda contacted drug dealer Zaid on Showik's instructions. Showik shared the contact number of Zaid with Samuel Miranda. Further, Zaid disclosed that he was paid a certain amount in cash and handed over the drugs to two persons who had come to receive the drugs from him. The location analysis reveals that on March 17,  Zaid and Samuel Miranda were in the same location at the time of the last call, accurate to 125m]

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is set to release a statement regarding the interrogation of Zaid Vilatra - an alleged drug peddler - who has been arrested in connection with the drugs trafficking case linked to the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death. The agency is also expected to produce Zaid before court tomorrow (3rd September).

• The insider revealed how easily available drugs were in Mumbai. Talking about a 'chain-like system', he said that junior artists or TV stars stay in touch with drug peddlers and use these drugs to expand contact with the senior actors in the business for better roles.

• In a significant development, forensic sources involved in the Sushant Singh Rajput death probe have refuted claims from certain quarters that the murder angle in the actor's death has been ruled out and that only the suicide angle was now being probed.

• The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday released an official statement on investigations so far in the Sushant Singh Rajput death and related drug cases. In its statement, the NCB said that it received official communication from Enforcement Directorate (ED) in which there were various chats related to 'drugs consumption, procurement, usage and transportation'. Taking cognizance of the matter, NCB stated that it conducted a preliminary inquiry and has launched an investigation in this matter.

• Sushant's flatmate Siddarth Pithani reached the CBI's DRDO guesthouse in Santacruz, Mumbai on Wednesday morning for interrogation by the investigative agency.