Let CBI take up Sushant case: Bihar Deputy CM
Mumbai police not cooperating with State in the investigation, says Sushil Kumar Modi
Political parties in Bihar have
been unanimous in demanding a CBI probe into the
death of Bollywood actor
Sushant Singh Rajput.
Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi alleged on Friday that Mumbai
police was not cooperating
with Bihar in its investigation
and so the CBI should take
over the case.
The actor was found hanging in his flat in Bandra in
Mumbai on June 14.
“Mumbai police is placing
obstructions in the way of
fair investigation by the Bihar police... BJP feels that the
CBI should take over this
case,” tweeted Mr Modi.
The Bihar police launched
an investigation after the actor’s father Krishna Kumar
Singh lodged an FIR against
the actor’s girlfriend Rhea
Chakraborty and five others
at the Rajiv Nagar police station here on July 25. He has
accused them of cheating
and abetment of suicide. A
fourmember team of the
Patna police is currently in
Mumbai.
Ms. Chakraborty subsequently filed a plea in the Supreme Court to transfer the
case from Patna to Mumbai.
The Bihar government has
roped in former Attorneygeneral Mukul Rohatgi to oppose Ms. Chakraborty’s plea.
Earlier, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan
and other leaders across party lines had demanded a CBI
probe. LJP president Chirag
Paswan even spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Leader of the Opposition
in the Bihar assembly Tejashwi Yadav, along with leaders
from the Congress and other
alliance parties, also insisted
on a CBI probe, as have leaders of the ruling JD(U) and
BJP in the State.
The chorus for a CBI
probe has baffled many in
the State. “Is it all because
Assembly elections are just
round the corner and no political party wants to go
against a popular sentiment?” wondered political
observer Ajay Kumar.
“Wasn’t it the same CBI that
has been unable to conclude
the famous Navruna Chakravarty case even after getting
10 extensions from the Supreme Court?” Twelveyearold Navruna was kidnapped
on the intervening night of
September 1819 in 2012 from
her home in Muzaffarpur
town, allegedly by those belonging to the land mafiapolicepolitical nexus.
ED begins probe into
money laundering case
The Enforcement
Directorate (ED) on Friday
filed a money laundering
case in connection with an
FIR lodged by the father of
actor Sushant Singh Rajput,
alleging cheating, criminal
conspiracy and abetment of
suicide. “The role of all
those named in the police
case will be investigated
under the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act,”
said an ED official.
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