Rhea Chakraborty Asks Court To Dismiss Plea By Sushant Singh Rajput's Sisters

Mumbai: 

Actress Rhea Chakraborty asked the Bombay High Court to dismiss a petition filed by actor Sushant Singh Rajput's two sisters to cancel the case filed against them for forging and procuring fake medical prescription for their brother.

Rhea Chakraborty is also an accused in Sushant Singh Rajput death case. She was released earlier this month after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 28 days after her arrest on drugs-related charges in the case.

The actress, who is the complainant in the case against Sushant Rajput's sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, filed an affidavit in the HC on Tuesday opposing their plea and said the allegations against them are serious.

Rhea Chakraborty also said since the probe in the case against Sushant Rajput's sisters is at a nascent stage, time needs to be given to the investigating agency.

In the affidavit filed through her advocate Satish Maneshinde, the actress said a forged and fabricated medical prescription was used to help Sushant Rajput procure medicines that are banned under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

"(Sushant) Rajput died merely five days after he obtained the said prescription, wherein he was unlawfully prescribed psychotropic substances at the behest of his sister (Priyanka) and Dr Tarun Kumar," Rhea Chakraborty said in her affidavit.

It needs to be investigated whether Sushant Rajput consumed the medicines prescribed, which may have contributed to his death and/or further deteriorated his mental health, the affidavit said.

The petition (of Sushant Rajput's sisters) should be dimissed, it said.

The petition came up before a division bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik which posted it for further hearing November 4 after both the CBI and the Mumbai Police, which had registered the first information report, sought time to file their affidavits.

The Bandra police in Mumbai on September 7 filed the case against Sushant Rajput's sisters and Dr Tarun Kumar of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, who signed the medical prescription.

Sushant Rajput's sisters in their petition filed on October 6 sought the case to be quashed and by way of interim relief prayed for a direction to the CBI, to whom the case was handed over by the city police, not to take any coercive steps against them.

The CBI is already probing a complaint lodged by Sushant Singh Rajput's father KK Singh accusing Rhea Chakraborty and her family of abetting his sons suicide.

Rhea Chakraborty in her affidavit said Rajput had a "tumultuous relation" with his family and was also suffering from mental problems for which he was undergoing medical treatment.

In November 2019, Sushant Rajput was examined by three psychiatrists who all opined that he was suffering from bipolar disorder and prescribed him medications, the affidavit filed by the actress said, adding that Sushant Rajput was fine till he was having his medicines regularly.

"In January 2020, Sushant Rajput went to Chandigarh to meet his family. After he returned, he said he was discontinuing his medications and treatment," the affidavit claimed.

"In March 2020, when the country was hit by COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown was announced, Rajput appeared stable initially, but with each passing day his mental health started deteriorating," it said.