The Bombay High Court from the past few weeks has been a battleground of Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters Meetu, Priyanka, the CBI, the Mumbai Police, and Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty. While Rhea Chakraborty alleges that Sushant died by suicide five days after he consumed medicines provided by his sisters, Sushant's sisters say the FIR was filed due to a personal grudge.
The CBI probing Sushant Singh Rajput's case has clearly stated to the Bombay High Court that Rhea Chakraborty's FIR is baseless. In its statement to the Bombay High Court, the CBI said, "FIR is vitiated & bad in law. The complaint filed by Rhea Chakraborty is mostly speculative in nature & such speculation can't be made the basis of an FIR."
However, the Mumbai Police feel otherwise. The Mumbai Police said to the Bombay High Court that the suggested medicine by Sushant's sister might have played a role in the actor's suicide. It said, "This version of the informant disclosed cognisable offences warranting investigation and requiring no preliminary enquiry. Therefore, the Mumbai Police were duty-bound to register the FIR."
"This may have led to the administration of psychotropic substances without actual examination of Rajput by the doctor and may have caused and contributed in his suicidal death," added the Mumbai Police.
Now, Sushant's sisters have filed a rejoinder and stated that Rhea Chakraborty's FIR is nothing but a step to harass them due to personal grudge. The rejoinder states, "The FIR has been lodged maliciously with an ulterior motive for wreaking vengeance and with a view to spite and harass the petitioners due to private and personal grudge and as such, the instant FIR is an abuse of process of law and the same is proven through Respondent No.2's own letter dated September 14, 2020. The Respondent No.2 in an attempt to harass the petitioners has concocted a false, inaccurate and malicious complaint based on unsubstantiated facts pertaining to June 8, 2020 which is contrary to the facts placed before the Supreme Court by Respondent No.2 herself, press statements released earlier and interviews given to several news channels."
"The falsity in the concocted story made by Respondent No.2 (Rhea) is writ large from the fact that Respondent No.2 has falsely and incorrectly stated that OP Singh is the husband of petitioner number 2 (Meetu Singh) and has made unfounded, scurrilous and baseless allegation that Sushant informed Respondent No.2 that OP Singh and his family were up to something to smear his image. Such scurrilous and preposterous allegations are made by Respondent No.2 maliciously with an intent to tarnish the image of the petitioners and OP Singh and are as such defamatory in nature."
Referring to Rhea Chakraborty's allegation, the petitioners have contended -"There is not even a single allegations of complaint or reply of Respondent No.2 that any such alleged drug was actually administered to Sushant Singh Rajput. Further, the drugs that have sought to be allegedly given by Dr Tarun Kumar are not banned drugs, in-fact a notification was issued in April 2020 which clearly permits the prescription of such medicine through telemedicine."