Posted: September 4, 2020 2:34:23 am
Sushant’s family’s lawyer, Vikas Singh, said the Rajputs were not aware of his mental health problems and would not want to comment on an ongoing investigation. (Proceedings)
TWO PSYCHIATRICS whom Sushant Singh Rajput had consulted independently for eight months, from November 2019 to days before his death by suicide on June 14, told Mumbai police that the actor was irregular on his prescribed medications. and, as far as they knew, they had stopped taking them in the first week of June.
His statements are now with the CBI, which has taken over the investigation of the case of complicity to the suicide registered in Patna against the Rajput partner, actress Rhea Chakraborty, following a complaint from her father KK Singh. The central agency questioned the two doctors again. One of the psychiatrists was summoned for questioning on Thursday.
Sushant’s family’s lawyer, Vikas Singh, said the Rajputs were not aware of his mental health problems and would not want to comment on an ongoing investigation.
In the statement to the Mumbai police, one of the psychiatrists said that Sushant had consulted him via video call on June 8, just six days before his death. On that occasion, the psychiatrist asked him why he had not been taking the prescribed medications. “Sushant just laughed and said nothing,” said the doctor.
The second psychiatrist told police that Sushant had all the symptoms of bipolar disorder and that “on a scale of 1 to 10 for anxiety, his mental condition had reached 9 or 10” at the time of his first consultation in November. past. The statement added that while the actor was aware of the disease early on, he would stop taking the drug as soon as his condition improved.
One of the doctors met the actor at least twice for a face-to-face consultation, and the other met him at least eight times. In their separate statements, both have painted the image of a deeply troubled man, with a long history of depression and anxiety, and deeply affected by the death of his mother while still a teenager. One of them, he had also recognized once that, at times, “he did not want to live.”
Both psychiatrists began treating Rajput independently after being contacted in November 2019 within days of each other.
One of the psychiatrists told police that on June 8, Rhea sent a message on WhatsApp that Sushant felt “depressed again” and “if he could start over on the medication.”
Rhea had made an appointment with the other psychiatrist for June 8, but called that morning to cancel saying that Sushant’s condition had deteriorated, that she had stopped taking medication, and that her family members were coming to be with him. he.
The doctor considered that since Sushant had stopped taking medication, the bipolar illness could have relapsed.
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