In jail for 2 months, Showik files fresh bail plea

Mumbai, Nov 7 : Arrested over two months ago on peddling charges, actress Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty has moved a fresh bail plea in a special court in an NDPS case, his lawyers said here on Saturday.
The special NDPS court is likely to hear his bail plea next week, which was earlier rejected by the same court, Metropolitan Court, and the Bombay High Court, his lawyer Satish Maneshinde said.
Showik, 24, was arrested on September 4 by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing the drugs angle to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput at his Bandra home on June 14.
Rhea, who was arrested in the same case later, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on October 7.
Currently lodged in Taloja Central Jail in Raigad, Showik has pointed out how he had been falsely implicated in the case and that no drugs were seized from him during the investigations.
“In the facts and circumstances of the present case, there has been no recovery of drugs in commercial quantity from the applicant… all allegations pertain only to small quantities, and hence the embargo imposed by Section 37 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 will not be applicable,” he said in his bail plea.