On Wednesday, CBI told Mumbai High Court that Rhea Chakraborty’s accusation that the sisters of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput obtained a bogus medical prescription for him was “mostly speculative.”
Such speculation cannot be the basis for an FIR, the central agency said in response to the request of Rajput sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, who sought to quash the case brought against them by Mumbai police.
Chakraborty, Rajput’s girlfriend, has alleged that a manufactured prescription was used to help him acquire drugs prohibited by the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act just days before his suicide in June 2020.
“The allegations in this FIR are mostly presumed and speculative in nature,” said the CBI.
The Central Bureau of Investigation also noted that it is investigating the complaint made by Rajput’s father, KK Singh, against Chakraborty and his relatives for allegedly instigating the suicide of the 34-year-old actor.
The Rajput sisters filed the petition through lawyer Madhav Thorat on October 6 seeking to have the FIR filed against them by the Bandra police annulled.
TheCBI said the police should have conducted a preliminary investigation before filing the First Information Report.
“It is an established law that two FIRs cannot be registered for the same cause of action… the IWC is already investigating the causes related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput and all aspects surrounding it.
“In view of this, it was expected that the Mumbai police would forward the complaint received from Rhea Chakraborty to the CBI instead of registering the FIR,” the CBI said.
“Therefore, the FIR’s registration of the same facts and cause of action is unjustified and is not allowed by law.
Therefore, this FIR is flawed and is in bad law, ”said the agency.
If Rhea Chakraborty was aware of the mobile phone chat between Rajput and her sister Priyanka in June 2020 during which Priyanka allegedly sent her a prescription, then Rhea should not have kept silent until September, the CBI said.
He was conducting an investigation without being hampered by any outside factor in an impartial manner, he said.
The police FIR names the two Rajput sisters and a doctor from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, Tarun Kumar, who allegedly signed the prescription.
The HC will hear the petition on November 4.
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