In a serious twist in the actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case, the Bihar government on Tuesday decided to recommend a CBI inquiry into the sensational death by suicide case of the Bollywood star on a request from his father, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said.
Kumar said on being informed by the Bihar Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey about his talk with the late actor’s father K K Singh seeking an inquiry by the central investigating agency into the matter, he told the DGP to get a proposal ready immediately and send it to the state government.
“The state government will formally recommend the case to be handed over to the CBI today itself after completing all the procedures and formalities”, the CM said.
The development comes a day before the Supreme Court is slated to hear a petition of Rajput’s rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, an accused in the FIR filed in Patna, seeking transfer of the case to Mumbai, where an investigation in the matter is already on.
The state governments of Bihar and Maharashtra have already filed separate caveats in the top court seeking to be heard before any order is passed on Chakraborty’s plea. The father of the late actor has also filed a caveat in the apex court.
A close associate of the Bihar CM told PTI,that Rajput’s father made a plea for the CBI inquiry citing hurdles created by the Mumbai police to the investigating team of the Patna police to prevent fair probe. (PTI)