Priyanka and Meetu Singh, sisters of later actor Sushant Singh Rajput, petitioned the Bombay High Court for an early hearing of their petition. They fear that the CBI could stop them at any moment.
PRIYANKA AND MEETU FILE A REQUEST FOR QUASH FIR REGISTERED BY RHEA
The division court of Judge SS Shinde and Judge MS Karnik had previously asked them what was the urgency of hearing the petition. The sisters, Priyanka and Meetu, had filed the petition for annulment of the FIR registered by actress Rhea Chakraborty.
Lawyer Madhav Thorat, who appeared on behalf of the sisters, told the court that since there is already an FIR against the sisters, they are already indicted in the case, and therefore fear that they could be arrested at any time.
In the petition, Priyanka and Meetu also seek a precautionary measure that no enforcement action is taken against them.
RHEA RECORDED A FIR AGAINST THE SISTERS IN SEPTEMBER
On September 7, 2020, Rhea had filed an FIR against the sisters for counterfeiting and giving Sushant medications that were incorrectly prescribed. He claimed that the sisters, along with some doctors, hatched a conspiracy and obtained a false prescription containing prohibited drugs and attached them without supervising the dosage and quantity, which may have resulted in a chronic anxiety attack and resulted in the suicide of Sushant. The FIR was searched by the Bandra police and transferred to CBI.
RHEA’S LAWYER FILED A RESPONSE TO THE PETITION
Meanwhile, attorney Satish Maneshinde appeared for Rhea in this case and said she has already filed a response to the petition. In the affidavit, Rhea has said that prescribing psychotropic substances without any consultation or examination is a violation of various provisions of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1985 and the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines of 2020.
In addition, the recipe prepared by them in collusion with each other is manufactured. “Sushant was in Mumbai, Maharashtra a lot and not in New Delhi. That is also surprising that Dr. Tarun Kumar, who is a cardiologist, thought it appropriate to prescribe medication to a person he did not know and who had never met with psychotropic substances. Nothing indicates that there was ever a teleconference between Sushant and the accused doctor, ”the affidavit reads.
PETITION MUST BE DISMISSED: RHEA ATTORNEY
Maneshinde has also indicated that the investigation against the sisters is in an incipient stage, so the petition must be rejected. Meanwhile, the court after hearing from Thorat asked Anil Singh, the additional attorney general representing CBI and the Mumbai police, to submit his response before Wednesday. The court will now hear the petition on November 4.
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