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INDIAN STAR’S BOYFRIEND ACCUSED OF AIDING SUICIDE

- — John Bacon

The boyfriend of Bollywood superstar Pratyusha Banerjee was booked by Mumbai police Tuesday for being in some way involved in the suicide of the troubled actress.

Pratyusha, 24, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her Mumbai home Friday. Her boyfriend, actor-producer Rahul Raj Singh, remains shattered by her death and in no condition to be interrogat­ed by police, his lawyer Neeraj Gupta told India’s ibnlive.com.

“We are going to approach the court,” Gupta told ibnlive.com. “We need to see the FIR (criminal complaint) and under what basis it was filed.”

Mumbai police did not immediatel­y respond to a USA TODAY request for details.

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