First step towards justice: Supreme Court allows CBI probe into Sushant’s death case, rules against Maha govt & Police
The Supreme Court today said the CBI will investigate actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The court also said the FIR registered in Bihar based on the complaint filed by Sushant Singh’s father was correct. Actor Rhea Chakraborty had asked the top court to transfer the First Information Report or FIR from Patna to Mumbai.
Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14.
The Mumbai Police said it was suicide and has been investigating allegations that he was suffering from depression and had felt slighted by film industry insiders and cliques.
More than a month later, Sushant Singh Rajput’s father KK Singh filed a case in Bihar, accusing his son’s 28-year-old girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her family of cheating him financially and mentally harassing him.
The Bihar Police complaint led to investigations by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate into the actor’s father’s complaint that crores were taken out of his account.
The Patna FIR invokes IPC Sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 380 (theft in dwelling house), 406 (criminal breach of trust) 506 (criminal intimidation),120B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating).
Sushant Singh Rajput’s family, fans and his colleagues from Bollywood have been campaigning for a CBI probe into his death since last month.
Rhea Chakraborty has told the Supreme Court that she has no objection if the probe into the death of Sushant Singh Rajput is transferred to the CBI. She, however, alleged that the Bihar police crossed their jurisdiction under “political pressure” and they could not transfer probe to the CBI.
