Sushant Singh Rajput’s friend says actor’s family asked him to give statement against Rhea Chakraborty to police: report – bollywood

A friend of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput has written in an email to the police that he is being pressurised to make negative statements against actor Rhea Chakraborty. Sushant died by suicide on June 14 and his father has filed an FIR against actor’s girlfriend, Rhea, accusing her of abetment to suicide.

As per a Mumbai Mirror report, Siddharth Pithani, a mutual friend of the actors, wrote to Mumbai Police in his email that ‘he is being pressured to implicate’ Rhea in case. The report said the email is a part of the petition filed in the Supreme Court by Rhea to transfer the FIR to Mumbai.

“Siddharth says he got calls on July 22 from Rajput’s relatives including his sister Meetu Singh and a senior IPS officer, OP Singh, and a senior Supreme Court advocate, who asked him about Chakraborty and the expenses she incurred during her stay at the Bandra apartment she shared with Rajput,” read the report.

Siddharth said he was again asked by Singh to give his statement Rhea to Bihar police. “I was told I would receive a phone call. I got a call from an unknown WhatsApp number, but it ended within 40 seconds, and no statement was recorded,” he said in the email. The report also mentioned that the email was used in the petition filed by Rhea with the Supreme Court.

Rhea’s petition in the SC is for transferring FIR to Mumbai. She alleged that there cannot be an “impartial investigation” in Bihar for the case and hence, she sought transfer of probe in the FIR to Mumbai. “In Bihar, there cannot be an impartial investigation and thereby she seeks transfer of probe in the FIR registered in Bihar to Mumbai,” she stated in her petition.

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In her petition, she claimed that Rajput was suffering from “depression from some time and was also on “anti-depressants”. “He committed suicide on the morning of June 14, 2020, at his Bandra residence by hanging himself,” read the petition.

The actor further claimed that she had also filed a complaint at Mumbai’s Santa Cruz police station against the death and rape threats. Earlier, she had demanded a CBI probe in the case.

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