Mumbai: Bombay High Court granted bail to actress Rhea Chakraborty on Wednesday.  She was walked out of byculla womens jail on Wednesday. The high court held there was no substance to narcotics control bureau’s allegation that Rhea was financing or trafficking in drugs. It did not accept the argument that she would attract stringent charges under narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances (NDPS) act for spending money in procuring drugs for Sushant.

She is not part of a chain of drug dealers, no drugs were recovered from her possession nor she benefit from deals said Justice Sarang Kotwal. The Judge also said there is nothing at this stage to show she committed any offence involving commercial quantity. Additional solicitor general, the NCB counsel Anil Singh, argued that celebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation.

The court rejected this suggestion too saying celebs enjoyed no special privileges before the law, so there was no reason they should incur any special liability. Granting bail to rhea, the high court directed her to surrender her passport to the NCB. It said she could not leave the country without a nod from the NDPS court, which on September 11^th had rejected her bail plea.

She must also visit the NCB office once a month for an hour for the next six months. The judge said rhea was directed to be released on bail on a bond of Rs. 1, 00,000/-. On her lawyer Satish Maneshinde’s request citing the pandemic situation, the HC allowed her to furnish cash bail to ensure an immediate exit from byculla women‘s jail. The judge also imposed sufficiently stringent bail conditions on her and added one more that she has to, for the first ten days, report daily at a nearest police station from 11:00am to 05:00pm to show her availability, on the request of additional solicitor general not to give her bail.