CBI continues to quiz staff, friend

SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT CASE

MUMBAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued its probe into allegations of abetment in the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. This is the fourth day of the central agency’s probe and it has not made any major breakthrough so far.

On Monday, CBI questioned members of Rajput’s staff, including cook Neeraj Singh, domestic help Keshav Bachner, as well as Rajput’s friend and creative content manager Siddharth Pithani. The interviews were conducted at the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s guest house in Santacruz (East).

CBI officials also went to Rajput’s flat in Bandra with the four people who had been present in the apartment on the day Rajput died – Singh, Bachner, Pithani and Rajput’s domestic help

Dipesh Sawant. This is the second time since Saturday that CBI has returned to Rajput’s home.

Another CBI team visited Waterstone Resort in Andheri (East) where Rajput had spent two months last year. A few employees of the resort were questioned. On Monday afternoon, a CBI team also visited met the team of Cooper Hospital doctors who conducted the autopsy.

Rajput was found dead in his Bandra apartment on June 14.His father KK Singh accused actor Rhea Chakraborty of abetment to suicide and misappropriation of funds. Chakraborty’s lawyer said she and her family have not received any summons from the CBI so far. “…If they receive a summon, they will appear before the agency,” Satish Maneshinde said.