The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday ordered the CBI to investigate Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
The SC said that the first information report (FIR) registered in Bihar based on the complaint filed by Sushant Singh’s father KK Singh was correct and Bihar was competent to ask the CBI to investigate the case. Mumbai police was told to hand over all the evidence to the investigating agency.
The case
Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, was found dead on June 14 in his Mumbai apartment. Mumbai Police said that it was a suicide and had been investigating allegations that he was suffering from depression.
After a month, KK Singh had filed a case in Bihar accusing Rhea Chakraborty and her family of cheating his son financially and mentally harassing him.
The Bihar Police complaint led the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the actor’s financials and his father’s complaint.
Rhea Chakraborty went to the SC asking that the Bihar case, which was taken over by the CBI, be transferred to Mumbai.
Chakraborty has denied all charges made by Sushant Singh’s father as “total nonsense”. She had said the move to supersede the Mumbai Police investigation had become about politics ahead of the Bihar election.
The Bihar government denied her charges and said it was well within its rights in transferring the case to the CBI, which was accepted by the SC.
