Updated: November 3, 2020 9:02:13 pm
Rhea Cakraborty outside the court of sessions in Mumbai on Monday afternoon. Express photo of Ganesh Shirsekar
Mumbai police told the Bombay High Court on Monday that they had an obligation to register FIRs against Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters, as the complaint filed against them by Rhea Chakraborty “revealed the commission of the crime.”
Faced with the central agencies’ investigation into the Rajput’s death on June 14, Rhea had filed a complaint at Bandra Police Station on September 7 against her sisters Priyanka, Meetu, and a doctor at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi for supposedly obtaining the deceased actor psychiatric drugs without consultation and with a falsified prescription.
Supporting the claims of the Rajput sisters, the CBI had told the HC last week that Rhea’s accusation against the actor’s sisters “was presumed and speculative” and said such speculation cannot be the basis for an FIR.
The Mumbai Police, through Nikhil Kapse, Chief Inspector of Bandra Police Station, submitted an affidavit and objected to the guilty plea brought by the Rajput sisters, seeking to overturn the FIR against them. The police refuted the allegations that they were damaging the reputation of the petitioners or any deceased person and said they were not trying to “influence or derail” the investigation undertaken by the CBI.
In addition, according to Rhea, the petitioners sent a fake prescription made with the help of the Delhi-based doctor, and Rajputs were prescribed anxiety medications.
“According to the informant (Rhea), the criminal conspiracy is that obtaining a fabricated prescription based on falsehood may have led to the administration of psychotropic substances without a royal Rajput examination and may have caused and contributed to the suicidal death of the actor,” he says the affidavit.
“This version of the informant revealed recognizable crimes that warrant an investigation and do not require a preliminary investigation. Therefore, the Mumbai Police had an obligation to register the FIR, ”said the affidavit.
Mumbai Police objected to CBI’s position in the event that they should not have registered FIRs in the same case that was investigated by CBI. “The case the CBI is investigating is one registered by the father of the deceased in Bihar. On the other hand, the FIR presented by the Mumbai Police is by Rhea seeking an investigation for counterfeiting, cheating and criminal conspiracy against the Rajput sisters, Priyanka and Meetu, and Dr. Tarun Kumar, ”says the affidavit.
A division bench of Judge SS Shinde and Judge MS Karnik will hear the case on November 4.
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