SSR Case: ED Summons Shruti Modi and Siddharth Pithani; Grills Samuel Miranda twice

Rhea Chakraborty had requested that her ED questioning be postponed till Supreme Court hearing, but the Enforcement Directorate has rejected her plea. She is currently being interrogated by the ED officials who are probing the money laundering angle of the SSR Case.

As reported by ANI, the ED has also summoned Shruti Modi, who is the Sushant’s former business manager today. And Siddharth Pithani has been summoned to appear tomorrow, 8th August.

Shruti Modi summoned today, Siddharth Pithani on August 8

Siddharth Pithani is Sushant’s friend and has also worked as a Creative Content Manager for him. 

As reported by India Today, Shruti Modi had worked as a business manager for Sushant from July 2019 to Feb 2020. 

She had revealed in her statement to Mumbai police that Sushant was working with her on his newly formed company with Showik Chakraborty, Rhea’s brother, called Front India for World Foundation. CBI has taken over the case and Shruti Modi has also been named in the FIR filed by them. Shruti has now appeared for giving her statement to the Enforcement Directorate.

Samuel Miranda was questioned twice by the ED

Another person named in the CBI FIR is Samuel Miranda, who has been questioned twice by the ED – on August 5 and August 6 as well. He was the housekeeping manager of Sushant’s home. The Patna FIR had alleged that he was a close aide of Rhea Chakraborty.

As per Mumbai Mirror report, ED questioned Miranda over allegations that he was part of a conspiracy led by Rhea Chakraborty – to wrongfully confine Sushant, change his employees with their own set of people and take charge of his finances. 

An agency source was quoted, “We are verifying allegations that the case accused had replaced Sushant’s set of employees with their own set of trusted/familiar employees, his phone/s were kept by the accused and that his financial details – like credit cards and bank accounts – were being controlled by Rhea and her accused relatives.”

Mirror report further stated that the agency had also been verifying if Sushant’s phone was allegedly shut off in December last year as part of the conspiracy to isolate him from his family, and whether a new phone was provided to him using Miranda’s identity details. 

The Enforcement Directorate had also recorded Sushant’s CA, Sandeep Sridhar’s statement earlier. 

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