FIR lodged by Mumbai Police illegal: Sushant’s family lawyer

Sushant Singh Rajput’s family lawyer Vikas Singh Tuesday alleged that the FIR registered by Mumbai Police against Rajput’s sisters et al. on Rhea Chakraborty’s complaint is against the law and that they will take serious action within the matter.

The senior advocate said the case associated with Rajput’s death was serious where multiple agencies just like the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Narcotics Control Bureau are probing the difficulty and that they won’t allow the accused to deflect the investigation by filing of such complaints.

He said a choice will taken during the day whether the Rajput family, which has accused actress and Sushant’s live-in partner Chakraborty of abetting his suicide, would file a contempt plea or quashing of her complaint during this matter.

I have been shown the FIR. the primary thought which involves my mind is that Bandra police headquarters is her (Chakraborty) second home. The FIR lodged by the police is totally illegal and contempt of the orders of the Supreme Court,” Singh alleged at a news conference .

The apex court has clearly said that Mumbai Police can register FIR only with reference to inquest proceedings. consistent with Supreme Court judgement no FIR are often registered against doctor without constituting a medical team, he said.

Chakraborty has accused Rajput’s sister Priyanka Singh and a Delhi-based doctor of forgery and preparing a “fake” prescription of medicines for anxiety.

In her complaint sent to the Bandra police here on Sunday, she has sought that Priyanka Singh and Dr Tarun Kumar, working with Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, be booked under relevant sections of the Indian legal code for forgery, the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and therefore the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines.

Rajput, 34, was found hanging in his apartment in suburban Bandra on Flag Day following which the Mumbai Police had lodged an Accidental Death Report (ADR).

On July 25, Rajputs father K K Singh lodged a complaint with Patna police against Chakraborty, her parents Indrajit and Sandhya Chakraborty, her brother Showik Chakraborty, the late actor’s former manager Shruti Modi and his house manager Samuel Miranda.

He accused them of cheating and abetting his son’s suicide. He also claimed that the accused persons had siphoned off Rs 15 crore from his sons bank accounts.

Based on this allegation, the Enforcement Directorate is probing concealment charges.

The FIR lodged by Patna police was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is probing drugs angle within the case.