New Delhi: The Bombay high court on Monday granted bail to Siddharth Pithani, the former flatmate of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was arrested in a drug case related to the actor’s death.
Rajput’s former girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, who is already out on bail, is also an accused in the case.
A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre granted bail to Pithani on a bond of Rs 50,000.
Pithani was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in May 2021 from Hyderabad. He is currently in judicial custody.
He had been booked under section 27 (A) (financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, among other charges. Pithani had sought bail, claiming he was framed in a false case, PTI reported.
He had claimed in his plea that he was never found in possession of any drugs, and nothing which could suggest he was involved in drug trafficking was recovered from him, reports PTI.
Rajput allegedly died by suicide in his Mumbai residence in June 2020. Later, the NCB began a probe, based on some WhatsApp chats, into an alleged drug supply racket in the film industry.
(With Agency Inputs)