The hearing on the bail plea of Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik will be held tomorrow as the Bombay High Court declared holiday on Wednesday, her lawyer said.
The High Court declared a holiday for the court due to the heavy rain in the State capital and added that all hearings slated for today will be taken up tomorrow.
“The Chief Justice has declared a holiday today for the Bombay High Court and today’s board will be taken up tomorrow,” Rhea’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde told reporters.
Rhea and her brother had on Tuesday moved bail applications in the Bombay High Court in connection with a drug case related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Meanwhile, a special (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) court had yesterday extended till October 6 the judicial custody of Rhea Chakraborty.
A special court in Mumbai had on September 11 rejected the bail plea of Rhea, her brother, and others observing that if she is released on bail she may alert other accused persons and they may destroy evidence in the matter.
The special NDPS court had also rejected the bail plea of alleged drug peddler Abdul Basit Parihar, Zaid Vilatra, Rajput’s personal staff, Dipesh Uttam Sawant and Rhea’s associate Samuel Marshal Miranda, who were also arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the case.
Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik requested Bail from the Bombay High Court, which was supposed to take up today. They were arrested on September 9 by the Narcotics Control Bureau in the drug charges linked to the Sushant Singh Rajput death investigation. On Tuesday, they filed an application in the Bombay High Court seeking bail. Their lawyer Satish Maneshinde, said the plea will be heard before a bench of justice Sarang Kotwal. The Special Court has extended her judicial custody till October 6. The Special Court had denied bail to Chakraborty on September 11, saying if she was released on bail she might alert others and they might destroy evidence.
