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Who is Sushant Singh Rajput’s flatmate Siddharth Pithani?

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The Narcotics Control Bureau arrested Siddharth Pithani in a drug case linked to the dying of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in Hyderabad on Friday.
Siddharth was Sushant’s artistic supervisor and flatmate and was first questioned by the Mumbai Police simply days after his dying. Pithani was employed by Sushant in 2018 to work on a undertaking. Mumbai Police mentioned that Pithani was conscious that Sushant was prescribed medicine for melancholy however had stopped taking these medicines within the days main as much as his dying.

At the time, a senior police official advised The Indian Express, “Pithani told us that he was not aware of the reason why Rajput was depressed. As he had been staying at Rajput’s home, he had, however, overheard the actor’s staff saying that he had stopped taking the medicines in the past few weeks as he was feeling better.”

As per a report by PTI, Pithani had despatched an e-mail to Mumbai Police whereby he acknowledged that he was “being pressured by Rajput’s family to record a statement against his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty.”
Sidharth Pithani was additionally questioned by Enforcement Directorate in reference to its probe right into a cash laundering case linked to the actor’s dying.
When the CBI took over the case, Pithani was questioned by them in August on the DRDO visitor home positioned at Kalina in Santacruz, Mumbai. The CBI took Pithani, prepare dinner Neeraj Singh and home assist Deepesh Sawant, to reconstruct occasions from June 14 on the late actor’s home.

The Indian Express reported in September that in one of many interrogation classes, Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty “was confronted with Pithani for the first time.”

Siddharth Pithani was allegedly current on the actor’s residence when he was discovered lifeless.