ED searches premises of film producer who worked with Sushant Singh Rajput
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of a film producer in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, officials said.
They said the office and residential premises of Dinesh Vijan in Mumbai were raided under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Some transactions of the film producer with Rajput are under the agency's scanner and the raids were conducted to obtain more information and evidence, they said.
Vijan was questioned by the ED in this case in the past and he was grilled about the payments made by him to Rajput and some contracts between them, they said.
Vijan had directed and produced the Hindi movie 'Raabta' that released in 2017 and had Rajput and actress Kriti Sanon in the lead roles.
The ED's money laundering case stems from an FIR filed by Rajput's father on July 25 with the Bihar Police in Patna against the actor's friend and live-in partner Rhea Chakraborty, her parents -- father Indrajit Chakraborty and mother Sandhya Chakraborty -- brother Showik, Rajput's manager Samuel Miranda, Shruti Modi and unknown persons, accusing them of cheating and abetting his son's suicide.
The agency has questioned all of them in the past apart from Rajput's father and some of his sisters.
The 34-year-old actor was found dead at his flat in Mumbai's Bandra area on June 14. The CBI and the Narcotics Control Bureau are also probing various angles linked to his death.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
