SC Orders CBI to Take Over Sushant Case
The Supreme Court announced CBI will investigate actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death and asked the Mumbai police to hand over all evidence collected so far to the CBI.
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.News media, sushant’s fans on social media, were all talking about his death. Everyone kept saying that there was some foul play involved in his death. More than a month later, Sushant Singh Rajput's father KK Singh filed an FIR in Bihar accusing Rhea Chakraborty and her family of cheating his son financially and mentally harassing him. The Bihar Police then approached the CBI to investigate Sushant’s death and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate Sushant’s finances as his father had complained that crores of Rupees were taken out of his account.
Opposing Sushant’s father’s FIR, Rhea Chakraborty - Sushant’s Girlfriend - went to the Supreme Court asking that the Bihar case, which was taken over by the CBI, be transferred to Mumbai Police. Rhea denied all charges made by Sushant Singh's father as "total nonsense". In her court arguments, 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.
Today the Supreme Court announced that the CBI will investigate actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death and asked the Mumbai police to hand over all evidence collected so far to the CBI. Moments after the Supreme Court order, Sushant Singh Rajput's sister Shweta Singh Kirti, who had been campaigning for a CBI investigation, tweeted: "Thank you God! You have answered our prayers!! But it is just the beginning... the first step towards the truth! Full faith on CBI!!"
