{"id":329185,"date":"2020-12-02T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329185"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:09:37","slug":"rhea-chakrabortys-brother-showik-gets-bail-in-drugs-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rhea-chakrabortys-brother-showik-gets-bail-in-drugs-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhea Chakraborty\u2019s brother Showik gets bail in drugs case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-329186 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rhea-showik-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/rhea-showik-1.jpg 396w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/rhea-showik-1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/>Actor Rhea Chakraborty&#8217;s brother Showik was on Wednesday granted bail by a special court in Mumbai, nearly three months after his arrest in a drugs case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput&#8217;s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Mumbai court cited a recent Supreme Court order which said that statements or confessions made to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials cannot be considered as evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Showik Chakraborty was arrested in September after being questioned by the NCB, which is probing the drug angle in Sushant Singh Rajput\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rhea Chakraborty was released on bail in October, nearly a month after her arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead on June 14 in his Mumbai apartment. The actor\u2019s family has accused Rhea Chakraborty of abetting his suicide and misappropriating his funds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Rhea Chakraborty&#8217;s brother Showik was on Wednesday granted bail by a special court in Mumbai, nearly three months after his arrest in a drugs case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput&#8217;s death. The Mumbai court cited a recent Supreme Court order which said that statements or confessions made to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[13233,13503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329188,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329185\/revisions\/329188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}