NEW DELHI, Mar 22: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case more than four years after it took over the probe, sources said on Saturday.
The Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, was found hanging at his flat in Mumbai’s Bandra on June 14, 2020. His death had shocked thousands of fans and given rise to several theories including the possibility of murder, prompting an investigation.
Officials said the closure report has been filed in two cases – the allegations made by Sushant Rajput’s father against his then girlfriend and actor Rhea Chakraborty and Ms Chakraborty’s allegations against Sushant’s family.
The CBI had taken over the case from the Bihar Police in August 2020. Sources said after conducting an investigation for over four years, the agency did not find any evidence that anyone had driven Sushant Rajput to die by suicide and Ms Chakraborty and her family have been given a clean chit.
A forensic team from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had also stated that Sushant Rajput was not murdered and it was a case of death by suicide.
After the death, the Bihar Police had registered an abetment of suicide case based on a complaint filed in Patna by Rajput’s father KK Singh. The actor’s family had accused Ms Chakraborty of mentally harassing him, medicating him, exploiting him for money and playing a role in his death.
When the CBI took over the investigation, the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) was asked to forensically examine the crime scene. A laptop, hard disks, a Canon camera and two mobiles were seized and all forensically examined.
The CBI closure report comes a few days after Mr Satish Salian, the father of Sushant Singh’s PR manager Disha Salian, filed a police complaint demanding a fresh inquiry into her death, also allegedly by suicide. He had also levelled allegations against the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray claiming that his daughter was “raped and murdered” and the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra had covered up both the suspicious deaths of Disha and Sushant Singh Rajput.
Disha had died after falling from 14th floor of a building in Malad in suburban Mumbai in June, 2020, and six days later Rajput was found hanging from the ceiling of his flat in Bandra. Both the deaths evoked suspicions of some foul play.
(Manas Dasgupta)
