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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 (Go To Top)

      New Delhi: The Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory's (CFSL) report on Monday confirmed that the white powder pouch found at Mahajan's 7, Safdarjung Road residence on June 2 contained heroin. "The one inch by 1.5 inch red pouch handed over on June 2 contains heroin," a CFSL communique to the Delhi police said. The Delhi police, probing the Rahul Mahajan alleged drug intake case, had collected two torn pieces of clothes belonging to Vivek Moitra and Rahul and two samples of stomach wash, besides the white powder pouch, from New Delhi's Apollo hospital for examination by the CFSL. Doctors at Apollo hospital had given a clean chit to Rahul on Saturday, ruling out drug abuse. On Sunday, however, hospital officials said, traces of Benzodiazepine - a sedative - had been found in Rahul's urine sample. Earlier today, a Delhi Police team began questioning Rahul currently recuperating in Apollo Hospital after allegedly taking a banned drug on June 2.

Police question Rahul, Apollo doctors (Go To Top)

      New Delhi: A Delhi police team has started questioning Rahul Mahajan, the son of the late BJP leader Pramod Mhajan, who is currently recuperating in New Delhi's Apollo Hospital after allegedly taking a banned drug late on Thursday night. Rahul has been shifted out of the intensive care unit of the hospital, sources said. The police are also questioning Apollo hospital doctors involved with Rahul's treatment, and aim to acquire as much detail as possible about the latter's present medical condition. The Delhi Police said that that they would be questioning Apollo Hospital's Medical Director Anupam Sibal over his contradictory statements issued at the weekend with regard to Rahul's toxicology report. Dr.Sibal gave a clean chit to Rahul on Saturday, ruling out drug usage. On Sunday, however, he said that traces of Benzodiazepine - a sedative - had been found in Rahul's urine sample. Sibal explained the contradiction by stating that the hospital did not conduct quantitative tests and only performed tests for the qualitative presence of drugs. "It could be said that cocaine was present even though in a very minute level. It is very much normal," he said. Meanwhile, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Manish Aggarwal has said that Sahil Zaroo, the alleged drug peddler in the case, has admitted that he had got the drug for Rahul and Bibek Maitra. Zaroo is under eight days of police remand. Interrogation of several other persons in connection with the supply of drugs is on, Aggarwal said.