India, April 26 -- A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court in Mumbai has held that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) failed to comply with a mandatory statutory safeguard while freezing four bank accounts linked to actor Rhea Chakraborty and her family, and ordered that the accounts be unfrozen and permitted to be operated.

The freeze happened in 2020 during the investigation into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in which a murder and drug angle was brought in. Chakraborty, Singh's ex-girlfriend, was implicated but received a clean chit from the CBI last year.

In a set of four orders passed on Saturday, the court found that the agency did not secure confirmation of the freezing action from the competen...