CENTRE SEEKS TO BE PARTY IN CHAKRABORTY’S SC PLEA

NEWDELHI: The Centre approached the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to be a party in a petition by actor Rhea Chakraborty who has appealed that an FIR filed against her over Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput’s death be transferred from Patna to Mumbai.

The department of personnel and training (DOPT) plea in the Supreme Court said the Union of India is a “necessary and proper” party to the proceedings. The move came in the wake of Chakraborty’s legal team raising objections to the Centre’s intervention. Maharashtra, Bihar, and KK Singh — Rajput’s father — are parties in her petition in the top court.