I am innocent: Rhea Chakraborty in bail plea
Rhea Chakraborty, arrested in a drugs case related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, has said in her bail plea filed
Mumbai: Rhea Chakraborty, arrested in a drugs case related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, has said in her bail plea filed in the Bombay High Court that she is innocent and NCB is "deliberately" trying to invoke stringent charges against her and her family.
In her bail application filed in the HC, Chakraborty said she is just 28 years of age, and besides the probe by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), she has been subjected to three more investigations by police and central agencies, and a "simultaneous media trial".
Chakraborty said all of this has taken a "severe toll on her mental health and well being".
Any further custody will worsen her mental health, she said in her plea filed through her counsel Satish Maneshinde.
Her bail plea was scheduled to be heard by a single bench presided over by Justice Sarang Kotwal on Wednesday.
Chakraborty further said in her plea that Rajput had been in the habit of consuming drugs, particularly, "ganja" since even before she got into a relationship with him.
While she would sometimes procure drugs for him in "small quantities", and would also "occasionally pay for them herself," she was in no way a part of any drug syndicate.
She also said Rajput was the only one who was consuming the said drugs. "The applicant (Chakraborty) is innocent and has not committed any crime whatsoever," the plea said.
Chakraborty has been booked by the NCB on several charges, including financing illicit trafficking of drugs under Section 27-A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act.
Besides, since no drugs were seized from her possession and since the NCB has managed to seize only 59 grams of drugs from all accused persons, the bar on grant of bail cannot be applied to her, she said in the plea.