FIR filed against Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters for abetment of suicide

FIR was registered less than 12 hours after Rhea Chakraborty filed a complaint against her late boyfriend's sisters

An FIR has been filed against the sisters of the late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, reported The Hindu. Mumbai police charged the Kai Po Che actor's sisters Priyanka and Meetu Singh with abetment of their brother's suicide. Rajput was found dead in his Bandra home on June 14. 

The FIR was registered less than 12 hours after actor Rhea Chakraborty filed a complaint against her late boyfriend's sisters and a doctor for arranging and providing medicines to Sushant.

They have been charged with abetment of suicide, cheating and criminal conspiracy. The Hindu accessed a copy of the FIR that has booked them under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 464 (making a false document), 465 (punishment for forgery), 466 (forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc.), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 474 (having possession of the document), 306 (abetment of suicide) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

Along with this, they have also been booked under Sections 8(1) - prohibition of certain activities relating to property derived from offence, 21 (punishment for contravention in relation to manufactured drugs and preparation), 22 (punishment for contravention in relation to psychotropic substances) and 29 (punishment for abetment and criminal conspiracy) of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

The complaint, which also names Dr Tarun Kumar of RML Hospital in Delhi and others, has cited offences under the Indian Penal Code, NDPS Act and Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020, for allegedly sending a bogus medical prescription depicting SSR as an Out-Patient Department person, her lawyer Satish Maneshinde said.

“When he was in Mumbai on June 8, 2020, prescribing drugs listed in the Schedule of NDPS Act, listed at items 36 and 37,… is misconduct under 3.7.1.4 under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines,” Maneshinde contended.

Earlier, Chakraborty was grilled for 8 hours on Monday by the Narcotics Control Bureau officials and allowed to leave in the evening for the second day, belying speculation that she would be arrested. She is expected to return for the third round of quizzing on Tuesday as the NCB officials continue their painstaking investigations to unravel the drugs angle in the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

For the second consecutive day on Monday, Rhea underwent interrogation sessions at the hands of NCB officials and was confronted by other accused in the case, including her brother Showik Chakraborty.

As of Sunday, Rhea commuted back and forth from her Santacruz home and the NCB office in Ballard Estate in her private vehicle.

The 28-year-old actor, who has already been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate, made her first visit to the NCB on Sunday, a day after her brother Showik was arrested and sent to custody till September 9.

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