CBI finally files closure report in Sushant Singh Rajput death case; here's big update

The CBI on Saturday filed two separate closure reports related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, one in the abetment to suicide case filed by his father, and another by the actor's rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty against his sisters.

The CBI investigated the two separate cases -- filed by Sushant’s father KK Singh accusing Rhea Chakraborty of abetment to suicide and siphoning off Rs 15 crore from the actor's accounts; and the second filed by Chakraborty in Bandra accusing Rajput's sisters of giving medicines to him based on bogus prescription issued by a Delhi doctor.

Findings By AIIMS Forensic Specialists:

In the case filed before Bandra Police, which the CBI later took over, Chakraborty had alleged that Rajput died five days after these medicines were wrongly prescribed to him. Based on expert opinion, crime scene analysis, witness statements, and forensic reports, the CBI concluded there was no material to support the allegations that anyone could have driven the actor to suicide, the officials said.

In its reported medico-legal opinion to the CBI, forensic specialists at AIIMS had dismissed the claims of "poisoning and strangling" made in the case of Rajput's death.

Chakraborty’s advocate Satish Maneshinde hailed the CBI's closure report. "We are grateful to the CBI for having thoroughly investigated every aspect of the case from all angles and closed the case," the advocate said in a statement.

Maneshinde said the amount of "false narrative in social media and electronic media was totally uncalled for".

“Due to the (Covid) pandemic, everyone was glued to the television and social media in the absence of anything happening in the country. Innocent people were hounded and paraded before the media and investigative authorities,” the statement said.

“Rhea Chakraborty had to undergo untold miseries and was behind bars for 27 days before being released on bail,” he said.

Worth mentioning, Rajput (34) was found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14, 2020.

Dirty Politics:

After the CBI report, the Maharashtra Congress said the BJP’s “dirty politics of eating butter from the scalp of the dead” has backfired. The BJP misused Sushant’s death to defame the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Congress and undivided NCP and Shiv Sena, and to achieve success in the Bihar elections, said state Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant.

“Not only this, a zero FIR was registered in Bihar in violation of the CrPC, and the case was transferred to the CBI. This also violated the law,” said the Congress leader in the post.

“Three investigation agencies were set up. The world-class Mumbai police were defamed. Lakhs of fake accounts were created overnight on social media and many stories were made up to create a picture of Sushant being murdered and the Maha Vikas Aghadi government suppressing it,” he said.

“Whether it is the Palghar Sadhu case or the investigation into Disha Salian’s death, it is clear how dangerous BJP’s vile politics of defaming the opposition parties is for the country,” he added.