Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister Priyanka Singh has moved the Supreme Court against a Bombay High Court order upholding a First Informa...
Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister Priyanka Singh has moved the Supreme Court against a Bombay High Court order upholding a First Information Report against her, in relation to her brother’s death, NDTV reported on Friday. Rajput was found dead in his apartment in Mumbai in June.
In the FIR registered against Priyanka Singh, the Mumbai Police accused her of forging and procuring a fake medical prescription for Rajput. The FIR was filed based on a complaint by actor Rhea Chakraborty, in which she also named Rajput’s other sister Meetu Singh.
On February 15, the Bombay High Court quashed the complaint against Meetu Singh, but held that the investigation against Priyanka Singh will continue. The two sisters had approached the court seeking dismissal of the complaint against them.
In her complaint, Chakraborty had alleged that Rajput’s sisters used a fabricated medical prescription to help him procure medicines banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act only a few days before his death. She also named Tarun Kumar, a doctor at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, who allegedly signed the prescription.
The sisters had, however, claimed that the FIR was lodged to “concoct a whole new story entirely different from the statements made” by Chakraborty before the Supreme Court and...
