On Wednesday morning, Justice S.V. Kotwal of Bombay High Court granted Rhea Chakraborty conditional bail on a surety of Rs 1 Lakh, along with late Sushant Singh Rajput's staffer Dipesh Sawant and his house manager Samuel Miranda.
By evening, Rhea Chakraborty on Wednesday evening walked out of the Byculla Jail, having spent 28 days in custody since her arrest on September 8.
After this Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer Satish Maneshinde interacted with NDTV on her bail. Talking to NDTV Maneshinde said, "I am delighted to the order of the honorable High Court and particularly Justice Kotwal has taken planes to render a long judgment of 70 pages at such a short time and considered all aspects of law and come to a finding that Rhea Chakraborty was entitled to bail."
"Now apart from that main finding, it gives us an impetus to tell us that the judges found that there is evidence of any financing or harboring as required under section 27A of the NDPS Act which was the harsh point of law that was attracted by the NCB just to keep her in illegal custody," added Manshinde.
Giving more insights into the Bombay High Court verdict Maneshinde said, "The judge has also accepted her case that she was only procuring drugs for her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput and she was not making any profits out of the procurement that she dealing because it was not being passed over to somebody else, the consumer was in the house. Apart from that the judges also found that there is no commercial quantity involved in this case, it's a small quantity it at worst a person could be accused of an offense under section 8 or 22 as defined in section 8C of the act."
On being asked about the campaign against Rhea Chakraborty, Maneshinde said, "It was a hate campaign. I have been saying it from the first day that she's been hounded because she was the girlfriend of Sushant Singh Rajput. She shared the house like a housewife. Other than marriage there was everything which was under the sun which was happening between both of them, therefore the reason for which she was being hounded just because the family was after her. I don't know for what reason the family seems to be very vindictive as far as Rhea Chakraborty is concerned."
Maneshinde went on to say that Rhea Chakraborty was the housewife of Sushant Singh Rajput and that was the reason why the central agencies like the CBI, NCB and the ED hounded her.
On the hounding of the media and central agencies, Maneshinde said, "Rhea Chakraborty's sentiments are stronger than him. She is a fighter, she is a Bengali Tigress and she will fight for this. She will fight all those who tried to destroy her reputation in Sushant Singh Rajput's case."