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The Nar💮cotics Control Bureau has arrested an alleged contraband dealer and detained anoth🐻er in connection with the drugs trafficking case linked to the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, officials said on Wednesday.
The arrested man h𓆉as been identified by the federal anti-narcotics agency as Zaid Vilatra. Indian currency worth Rs 9,55,750 and foreig🦋n currency (USD 2,081, 180 British Pounds, 15 dirhams), which the NCB claimed are "proceeds of drug peddling", have been recovered from him.
"Zaid disclosed that he runs an eatery in Bandra which was not giving any pecuniary gains since lockdown. He also disclosed that he is into drug ped༺dling especially bud, through which he used to earn a substan🔯tial amount of money," the NCB said.
ꩵAccoꦆrding to the NCB, the best quality of bud is sold for about Rs 5,000 per gram.
Zaid came under the scanner after the agency arrested two people -- Abbas Lakhani and Karan Arora -- in another narcotics case on August 27-28 in Mumbai and recovered a bud consignment from th👍em.
Lakhani had &quo🎃t;lin🔯kages" with Zaid, the NCB claimed.
The agency h꧃as also𝐆 detained a Bandra resident identified as Basit Parihar after interrogating Zaid.
Parihar is "learnt to have linkages" with the narcotics case registered against Rajput's live-in partner Rhea Chakra⛎borty, 28, and othe🌜rs.
Rhea is the main accused in the death case of the 34-year-old♎ actor that is being probed by the NCB, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on money laundering charges and the Central Bureau of Inves✤tigation (CBI).
The role of Rhea's brother Showik and his purported links with the people nabbeꦓd by the NCB are unde﷽r the scanner of the agency and he is expected to be summoned for questioning soon, the officials said.
Some more drug peddler🐻s based in Maharashtra, Delhi and Goa are also under the agency꧃'s scanner, they said.
A special ♛NCB t🧜eam from Delhi, headed by deputy director (operations) K P S Malhotra, is camping in the western metropolis to take forward the probe.
The team a🐲lso includes agency officers from Mumbai and has been con💃stituted by NCB Director General Rakesh Asthana.
The agency filed a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act aܫfter the ED share✱d with it a report following the cloning of two mobile phones of Rhea.
According to the officials🦂, the mobile phone chats and messages indicated procurement, transportation and consumption of drugs and these leads were shared by the ED w✨ith the NCB and the CBI.
Rajput was found💛 dead at his duplex flat in Bandra on June 14.
