Rhea Chakraborty and father's phone backups taken by ED; actor summoned once again

As Enforcement Directorate probes deeper into financial aspects of possible causes of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's alleged suicide, latest development in case is that Rhea Chakraborty, late actor's girlfriend, will be summoned for interrogation for second time on Monday, August 10. As per sources, ED has collected digital evidence from cellphones as well. officials have taken a data backup of two phones of Rhea Chakraborty and one phone of her far Indrojit Chakraborty.

actor's bror Showik left ED office at 6:40 AM on Sunday after about 18 hours of interrogation regarding his part in alleged companies formed by Rhea where he is director. Showik has been named in all cases registered against Rhea Chakraborty alleging that he co-conspired to cheat late actor and siphoned off huge amounts of money from him. 

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Giving details about interrogation by ED, sources report that both Rhea and Showik were asked to provide information on ir bank accounts and details of companies that were allegedly formed using Sushant Singh Rajput's money. ED asked Rhea about her income and investments made in last few years and her alleged absconding of one company months after it was formed.

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ED has registered a case against Rhea Chakraborty under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after Sushant's far KK Singh alleged in his FIR at Patna last month that she had cheated late actor of a huge sum of money. Apart from ED probe, Sushant's mysterious death case was also being investigated by Bihar Police and Mumbai Police. However, case has w been taken over by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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Maharashtra govt's reply to SC

In its reply to top court in plea filed by Rhea to move case lodged by Sushant's far from Bihar to Mumbai, Maharashtra government has attacked Rajput's far pointing out that his allegations against Rhea of 'committing criminal breach of trust', 'abetment of suicide' occurred in Mumbai. government has stated that Rajput's far was t 'within his rights' in registering a complaint at Bihar's Rajeev Nagar police station in Patna when alleged offence had occurred in Mumbai, within limits of Bandra police. government has also stated that Rajput's far never made any request to Mumbai police to file an FIR against Rhea.

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