Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik and Sushant Singh Rajput house manager Samuel Miranda on Friday, in the alleged suicide case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Both will be produce in a Court on Saturday. The duo has been booked under sections that pertain to production, manufacture, possession, sale, purchase and transport of Narcotic or Psychotropic substance and abetment and conspiracy under NDPS Act. The offence carries a maximum punishment of one year imprisonment and a fine. The arrested duo had procured Marijuana from drug peddlers for Rajput, officials claimed. The duo, however, did not use marijuana, sources said.

Officials also probing the role of the Rhea based on the chats recovered from her mobile. NCB officials said drug, Bud, a curated form of marijuana, is in demand in Bollywood and sold for around Rs. 5K per gram and claimed that they want to uproot the drug cartel in Mumbai, especially Bollywood. Rhea Chakraborty in an interview had said Rajput used to smoke marijuana. Sushant used to smoke marijuana and drink regularly. The Enforcement Directorate probing the money laundering angle had found chat messages pertaining to drugs on Rhea’s mobile that triggered this investigation.

The ED had passed on the details to the NCB. The ED had cloned her mobile and found her involvement in purchase, consumption, transportation and use of contraband, NCB has claimed. Officials said her Whatsapp chat with other entities point to conspiracy and abetment. Earlier, in the day NCB carried out searches at Rhea’s Bandra residence where she stayed with her brother Showik, Miranda’s flat in Sahar village. Both were brought to the NCB office where they were questioned before placing them under arrest at 9 pm.

NCB had earlier arrested another drug supplier Basit Parihar, who has been remanded in custody till September 9. Basit Parihar has not only admitted to having purchase and sold marijuana, but he has said he use procure drugs from Vilatra and Kaizan as per Showik’s instructions and was directing them to deliver it to Samuel, Parihar’s remand application, states.