Actor Rhea Chakraborty registers a case of abetment to suicide against Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters. She accused the sisters of making “bogus medical prescription” to enable him to access anxiety medication that cannot legally be prescribed on WhatsApp, Mumbai Police has registered a case of abetment to suicide against two of Mr Rajput’s sisters and others.
The case has been transferred to the CBI for further investigation in accordance with orders of the Supreme Court, Mumbai Police said.
An offence was registered against Mr Rajput’s sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, Dr Tarun Kumar of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and others, an official said.
“Rhea Chakraborty has set the criminal law in motion by filing her complaint with Bandra police station. The cocktail of illegally administered medicines and drugs may have lead to SSR’s suicide on June14, 2020. His sisters need to be answerable to the investigators and God,” Ms Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde said today.
Varun Singh, the sisters’ lawyer that they will approach the court seeking quashing of the First Information Report (FIR) registered them.
Rhea Chakraborty’s complaint alleged that the forged prescription depicted Sushant Singh Rajput as being at a Delhi Out Patient Department when in fact he was in Mumbai.
“(Sushant Singh Rajput) died merely five days after obtaining the prescription in which he was unlawfully prescribed psychotropic substances,” Rhea Chakraborty, Mr Rajput’s girlfriend, said in her complaint on Monday.
“It is imperative that the actions of Priyanka Singh, Dr Tarun Kumar and others be investigated and that it be determined as to how they came to provide the deceased with such a bogus and unlawful prescription,” she said.
