Actress Rhea Chakraborty (28) has opposed the petition filed by Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, sisters of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput (34), for annulling the first information report (FIR) registered against her by the Bandra police .
In an affidavit in response to the petition in Bombay High Court (HC), the actress has reiterated her allegations that Priyanka and Dr. Tarun Kumar, a cardiologist associated with Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) in Delhi , had illegally prescribed drugs containing psychotropic substances, for the deceased actor without consultation.
She has claimed that the FIR registered at Bandra Police Station at her request needed to be thoroughly investigated, as the Rajput ended her life just a week after receiving these prescriptions.
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According to his affidavit, Rajput had received WhatsApp messages from Priyanka on June 8 containing prescriptions, prescribing Nexito (5 milligrams), Librium (10 mg) and Lonazep MD (0.5 mg), and all three medications contain psychotropic substances. such as chlordiazepoxide and clonazepam, under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) of 1985.
Chakraborty has stated that since the allegations are serious in nature, the investigating agency must be given sufficient opportunity to investigate the case.
The HC bench, composed of judges SS Shinde and MS Karnikhas, released the petition filed by Priyanka and Meetu Singh for an additional hearing on November 4.
In the petition submitted through lawyer Madhav Thorat, the Rajput sisters have stated that the drugs are not prohibited and that the guidelines issued by the Medical Council of India (MCI) on April 11, for telemedicine “allow the medication is prescribed to a patient even at the first consultation. “
“A simple reading of the complaint together with the FIR shows that the statements made there do not establish any recognizable crime,” the petition said. Chakraborty’s filing of the complaint was nothing more than a feeble attempt on her part to scuttle the investigations against her and blame Rajput’s relatives for her suicide as she was about to be arrested by the Bureau. of Narcotics Control (NCB) ”. further stated.
No criminality can be attributed to the petitioners, especially when the complaint is based solely on drugs prescribed by a doctor, he added.
In support of their claim, they relied on a 2005 Supreme Court (CS) ruling in the Jacob Matthew case, in which the higher court had held that no crime against a doctor can be investigated without first obtaining the opinion of experts in the medical field. .
The petition also noted that there was an excessive delay of 90 days in filing the police report. The drugs were prescribed on June 8, the day the Rajput asked Chakraborty to leave their home with her bag and luggage, but the complaint was filed on September 7.
Rajput had committed suicide in his Bandra apartment on June 14.
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