Bihar’s Sushant Rajput Probe Biased, CBI Takeover Rushed: Mumbai Police
Mumbai Police had mentioned Sushant Singh Rajput had died via suicide
New Delhi:
Opposing a CBI probe in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying, the Mumbai Police advised the Perfect Courtroom on Saturday that it was once sporting out an unbiased investigation and alleged that that the registration of a case via the Bihar Police was once “politically motivated” and violated the main of federalism.
The 34-year-old Bollywood actor was once discovered lifeless in his condominium in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14. The Mumbai Police mentioned he had died via suicide and started investigating whether or not he was once pushed via scientific melancholy and unsightly rivalries within the movie trade.
Final month, Sushant Singh Rajput’s father KK Singh filed a case in Patna that accused his female friend Rhea Chakraborty, additionally an actor, and her kin of dishonest him financially, mentally harassing him and using him to suicide. Amid rising clamour in political circles and consent from the circle of relatives, the probe was once transferred to the CBI.
In a testimony filed prior to the highest courtroom based on a petition via Ms Chakraborty that asked for the Bihar case to be transferred to Mumbai, the town police mentioned the CBI will have to have waited for the Perfect Courtroom resolution within the topic prior to taking up the probe.
The affidavit mentioned that Bihar Police didn’t have the jurisdiction to analyze the FIR or read about witnesses and mentioned the query of cooperation via the Mumbai Police into the parallel inquiry via the Bihar Police didn’t rise up.
It alleged that that the registration of FIR in Patna via Bihar Police was once “politically motivated and violated the rules of federalism enshrined within the charter”.
The Mumbai Police mentioned that the Bihar Police may just handiest have registered a “0 FIR” because the crime didn’t fall in its jurisdiction and despatched it to Mumbai. It didn’t have the criminal authority to switch the case to the CBI both.
The “indecent haste with which the CBI has proceeded on this regard speaks for itself, in regards to the bonafides of all concerned on this workout,” the Mumbai Police mentioned.
The police additionally denied that quarantining of senior Bihar Police officer Vinay Tiwary was once geared toward obstructing its investigation.
The police mentioned that an investigation via two other state police into the similar incident, which has came about inside of one state, will result in a chaotic state of affairs because the investigation of 1 state police would possibly intervene with the investigation of any other state police.
On Thursday, in its submission to the highest courtroom, the Bihar executive had accused the Mumbai police of serving to Rhea Chakraborty and obstructing its investigations. Rhea Chakraborty has given no evidence that the Patna police is “biased in opposition to her” past “normal and bald allegations”, mentioned Bihar, arguing in opposition to the actor’s petition to switch the case filed via Sushant Singh Rajput’s circle of relatives in Patna to Maharashtra.
When the listening to resumes subsequent week, the Maharashtra executive can be represented via senior suggest and Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
