India, April 27 -- A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court has discharged Kunal Jagdish Jani from a case registered by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) during its crackdown on alleged drug peddlers following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020, holding that there was no legally admissible material linking Jani to the alleged drug network and that putting him through trial would be a "futile exercise".

NCB had, in August 2020, registered a case linked to the abetment of Rajput's suicide, based on inputs from the Enforcement Directorate. The agency later arrested several individuals, including actor Rhea Chakraborty, and filed a charge-sheet naming over 30 accused. As the investigation progressed, it...