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Rahul
Mahajan arrested on drug charge
New
Delhi: The police today arrested Rahul Mahajan for possession
of drugs. He has been arrested under the Narcotics Act. Rahul
is under treatment at New Delhi's Apollo Hospital where he
was admitted in a serious condition in the wee hours on Friday.
Police said Rahul admitted to taking drugs on that fateful
night.
"In the totality of the evidence collected so far, we have
arrested Rahul Mahajan. We are seeking opinion from the doctors
if he can be discharged," Additional DCP, Delhi Police, Manish
Agarwal, said, adding that the two charges under which he
has been booked, were consumption of drugs and tampering of
evidence. Rahul's advocate, Sunil Mittal however, expressed
unhappiness over the manner in which the police interrogated
Rahul in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital for
two-and-a-half hours from 5 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Rahul
has now been shifted to a private suite in the hospital under
the watch of the police. Earlier in the day, a team of police
officials led by Ram Kishan, Station House Officer of the
Mandir Marg Police Station began recording the statement at
about 1100 a.m.
Meanwhile, police arrested three Nigerians for supplying the
drugs to Rahul through Sahil Zaroo. They were arrested on
the basis of information provided by Zaroo, who was alleged
to have procured the drugs for Rahul at the insistence of
Bibek Moitra, the private secretary of late BJP leader Pramod
Mahajan. Moitra, who also snorted the heady concoction, was
brought dead to the hospital on Friday. Sahil was picked up
by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in Srinagar on Saturday after
his hi-profile appearance in a national TV channel broadcast,
where he proclaimed his innocence. Apollo Hospital had also
bungled on its medical report, at first saying there were
no traces of drugs in Rahul's body and contradicting it within
24 hours, saying traces of drugs were found in Rahul's urine,
though they were within permissible limits.
Rahul
case: white powder is heroin