Mumbai police have recorded a first information report based on a zero FIR submitted by their counterparts in Bihar in relation to the death case of 26-year-old television actor Akshat Utkarsh in the capital of Maharashtra. Bihar police had registered a zero FIR in Utkarsh’s hometown of Muzaffarpur, based on his family’s complaint against his girlfriend and sister.
Authorities say it is unusual for police in one state to try to investigate a crime that is primarily related to another. But the Bihar police had deviated from this standard practice in August this year when they registered an FIR for complicity in suicide, dishonestly inducing the handover of property and breach of trust in the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in Mumbai in a complaint. from his father KK Singh.
FIR Zero has been transferred to Bihar Amboli Police in accordance with procedure. The FIR was registered at the Amboli Police Station in Mumbai under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 34 (acts of several persons in compliance with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), according to officials police cited by the ANI news agency.
Amboli police officers said they are investigating the matter and arrested a struggling actress and her sister on Thursday for allegedly killing Utkarsh.
Utkarsh was found dead in his rented apartment in the Andheri area of Mumbai on September 27. According to the Amboli police officers, he died by suicide and was depressed from lack of work. His family, however, had dismissed the allegations, saying that Utkarsh was killed. The Amboli police had initially registered an accidental death record (ADR) in connection with the case.
Akshat’s father, Vijaykant Chaudhary, had said in a written complaint that an actor in distress who was a friend of Akshat wanted to marry him. But when he refused to marry her, she killed him with the help of her sister, Amboli police officers said.
An FIR can be filed at any police station regardless of the location of the incident or jurisdiction. The FIR appears at a police station that has no jurisdiction over the incident and is known as ‘FIR Zero’. The zero FIR is then transferred to the appropriate police station, which files an actual FIR and investigates the case.
(With contributions from ANI)
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