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Sushant case: Judicial custody of Rhea Chakraborty, brother Showik till October 20
AIIMS has ruled out the murder angle in Sushant Singh Rajput`s death case.
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In an exclusive conversation with Zee News, Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh talked about Sushant Singh Rajput's death case.
IANS quotes Advocate Satish Maneshinde, who represents Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik, as saying that the kin and lawyers of the late actor are raising doubts on the probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and also the conclusions of the AIIMS forensic team. "The CBI is independently and impartially investigating both the cases and the agency is supposed to be insulated and free from any interference," Maneshinde said, referring to the probe into the actor`s death and the offshoot drugs cases.
Mumbai Police sources have said that there may be around 80,000-1,00,000 such 'fake accounts' created on various social media platforms after Sushant's death on June 14.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday said that 'fake social media accounts' set up after actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death are under cyber cell radar and a probe into the case has been launched. He said that the fake accounts were seeking justice for Sushant and the people of Maharashtra will not forgive them.
Special NDPS Court extends judicial custody of Rhea Chakraborty, Showik Chakraborty and others till October 20, reports ANI.
After the AIIMS panel in its report ruled out the murder angle in Sushant Singh Rajput's death, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut retorted that there was a conspiracy to malign the image of Maharashtra and Mumbai Police since the beginning of the case.
The CBI had taken over the probe from Bihar Police into the alleged abetment to suicide case filed by the actor's father K K Singh in Patna against Rajput's girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her family.
Rajput's family lawyer Vikas Singh said on Sunday that he was highly perturbed by the AIIMS' medico-legal opinion submitted to the CBI and would request the probe agency's chief to constitute a fresh forensic team in the case.
"The medical board has submitted the report directly to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as required. Being a legal matter, any inputs on the report submitted by the medical board would have to be obtained from the CBI," it said.
The AIIMS said in a statement, "A medical board was constituted by Dr Sudhir Gupta, Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology AIIMS, New Delhi as per request received by him from CBI for providing expert opinion in the case relating to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput."
New Delhi: The AIIMS on Monday said the medical board has submitted its report on the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput to the CBI and any input regarding it should be obtained from the central probe agency.
The medical board has ruled out murder in the death of Rajput, terming it "a case of hanging and death by suicide", the premier institute's forensic chief Dr Sudhir Gupta had said last week.
Meanwhile, after AIIMS' report, Sushant's family lawyer Vikas Singh said on Sunday that he would request the CBI chief to constitute a fresh forensic team in the case.
Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14.
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