Mumbai: Even as the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has asserted that it has ‘jurisdiction’ to probe the Sushant Singh Rajput’s death-related cases, the Bombay High Court is set to hear bail applications of two of the prime accused — actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik — later in the day, officials said.
Opposing their bail pleas, the NCB said that as per the directions of the Supreme Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation would take over the Sushant probe, if any new cases are registered on the late actor’s death and the surrounding circumstances of his unnatural death, but it (the directions) did not pertain to the present (drugs) cases registered under the NDPS Act, 1985.
The NCB reiterated its earlier stance that Rhea was “an active member of the drug syndicate connected with high society personalities and drug suppliers”, besides her involvement in…