Bihar govt wants CBI probe in Sushant case

PATNA/MUMBAI: The Bihar government on Tuesday recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, chief minister Nitish Kumar said.

“The state government has sent its recommendation for a CBI inquiry into the case filed by Mr KK Singh, the father of late Sushant Singh Rajput,” Kumar tweeted in Hindi.

On July 25, Singh lodged a police complaint against Rhea Chakraborty, the actor’s girlfriend, of abetting his suicide, keeping him in wrongful confinement and defrauding him of crores of rupees.

But Chakraborty’s lawyer said Bihar cannot recommend a CBI probe since the police from that state do not have any jurisdiction to even investigate the case.

“There cannot be transfer of a case which had no legal basis to begin with for the Bihar police to get involved,” lawyer Satish Maneshinde said in a statement.

Rajput, 34, was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.

AADITYA SPEAKS OUT

Maharashtra minister and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray lashed out at “dirty politics” over Rajput’s death after his name came up in theories floating online and indirect references to him in speculative news reports. The 30-year-old, in a strongly worded statement in Marathi, termed the campaign against him “mudslinging” stemming from “frustration” of the opposition party, a reference to the Bharatiya Janata Party.