A massive claim floating on social media allege that famous YouTuber Dhruv Rathee has been hired to defame and link Sushant's family to his death. Sushant's close friend Smita Parikh took to Twitter and responded on the claim that Dhruv Rathee has been paid Rs. 65 lakh rupees.
A user on Twitter claimed, "ATTENTION: A major YouTuber with more than 4m subscribers has just been paid 65 lac Rs to make an analytical video "exposing role of SSR's family in his death". The deadline given to him is 1-2 weeks. The same YouTuber was earlier hired to target Kangana & Arnab."
"His usual fee is 30-40 lac Rs per video. For Kangana and Arnab,+ he was paid 35 lac Rs for each video. "
The user did not take the name of Dhruv, however, most of the people on social media are claiming that it is none other than famous YouTuber Dhruv Rathee.
On this claim, Sushant's friend Smita Parikh slammed people who are following the YouTuber. She wrote, "For all those who follow these sold out people who target @itsSSR family and frontliners ! Imagine why many paid PR started attacking us ?now you know what are they gaining ? It’s such a shame but who is to blame ??"