New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday framed charges against son of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan’s son Rahul Mahajan in a drug abuse case.
Rahul was charged under sections 29 (criminal conspiracy and abetment) and 25 (punishment for supply and distribution of contraband) under NDPS Act.
Additional Sessions Judge S N Gupta after framing charges against Rahul and five others fixed March 10 for commencing the trial in the case
However, Rahul – who ran into trouble last year when he and his late father’s secretary Bibek Maitra were admitted to Delhi’s Apollo Hospital for allegedly doing drugs – got a relief as the court did not form trafficking charges against him.
Rahul and Maitra, had allegedly consumed an unspecified quantity of the contraband on June 1 which was supplied by three Nigerians.
While Moitra was later brought dead to Apollo Hospital, Rahul and another youth Sahil Zaroo – who later surrendered dramatically in a TV studio in Srinagar - had to be medically treated for their health condition.
A case under the NDPS Act was subsequently registered with the Tughlak Road police station.
The court also framed charges against Sahil Zaroo, two Nigerian nationals Abdul Lateef Ashola Md Abdullah and Egbedokun James Taiwo along with Harish Sharma, a close aide of late Pramod Mahajan and Ganesh Sinha under various sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and IPC.
Zaroo has been charged under sections 21 (sale and purchase of drugs), 29 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) of the NDPS Act and section 419 (punishment for cheating by personation) of IPC.
Against the two Nigerians the court framed the charges under sections 21 (sale and purchase of drugs) and 29 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) under the NDPS Act. Harish Sharma, a close aide of late Pramod Mahajan and Ganesh Sinha, the servant at the Mahajan family were both charged under sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.
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