Kangana Ranaut to return National Award if SSR death claims proven wrong

Actor Kangana Ranaut has vowed to return her Padma Shri should she be unable to prove the claims she has made about actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Speaking to Republic TV, the Queen star said that had been summoned by the police with regards to the case.

“They (Mumbai police) summoned me and I asked them since I’m in Manali if they can send somebody to take my statement here but I have not received anything after that. I am telling you, if I have said anything, which I can’t testify, which I can’t prove, and which is not in the public domain, I will return my Padma Shri,” Hindustan Times quoted Ranaut as saying. “I don’t deserve it. I am not that person who will go on record (to make such statements) and everything that I have said is in the public domain.”

Rajput died by suicide on June 14. He was 34 years of age and had reportedly been suffering from acute depression. In a couple of videos last month, Ranaut had talked about the pressure and rejection he was facing from Bollywood and the media. She blasted blind items written about him in the media and called his death a “murder planned by the movie mafia.”

The starlet also quoted Rajput’s father, his ex-girlfriend Ankita Lokhande and film-maker Abhishek Kapoor and even read out some articles published about the late PK actor by the media. She said that she never spoke up when the media targeted her but confronted a journalist after they spoke “against a freedom fighter,” referring to Rani Laxmi Bai.

“Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise has shaken us but there are people who are running a parallel narrative and saying that he committed suicide because he was depressed. How can a person’s mind be weak if he holds ranks in engineering entrances?” Ranaut asked. “In his last interviews, he is clearly asking why the industry is not accepting him. He felt like a leftover. Do you feel that this does not hold importance in the incident of his demise? This was not a suicide but a planned murder. The only mistake that Sushant Singh Rajput made was to succumb to their planning,” she added.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, however, said on Friday that the police is not suspecting any foul play in Rajput’s death so far. He also said that there is no need for a CBI investigation in the case.

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