The 34-year-old actor was found hanged at his home on June 14.
Bombay:
Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh moved the Bombay High Court on Tuesday, seeking to overturn the FIR registered against them by the Mumbai police for forgery and obtaining a false medical prescription for their late brother .
Bandra Police filed the FIR against the duo on September 7, based on a complaint filed by Sushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend and actress, Rhea Chakraborty, currently in jail over a drug case related to the death of the actor.
A division bench consisting of Judges S S Shinde and M S Karnik resumed the plea on Tuesday and then posted it for a hearing on October 13, saying there was no urgency.
In her complaint, Rhea Chakraborty accused the sisters of Sushant Singh Rajput and Dr Tarun Kumar of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi of falsifying a prescription for supposed anxiety drugs that were banned under the Law on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (NDPS), 1985.
According to the complaint, the drugs were intended for Sushant Singh Rajput. The 34-year-old actor was found hanged at his residence in suburban Bandra on June 14 of this year.
In the petition, Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters claimed that the FIR was filed solely on the basis of media reports and that the complaint was full of irregularities and material discrepancies.
They also said there was an unreasonable 90-day delay in filing the complaint that the drugs were prescribed on June 8, the day the suspect Singh Rajput asked Rhea Chakraborty to leave his home, and the complaint was filed on September 7.
The petition as an interim measure requested an instruction from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to which the FIR against the petitioners was handed over by the police, to take enforcement action against them.
The CBI is already investigating a complaint filed by Sushant Singh Rajput’s father, KK Singh, who accused Rhea Chakraborty and her family of encouraging her son’s suicide.
“A simple reading of the complaint and the FIR shows that it does not detect any identifiable offense. The drugs which would have sought to be administered by Dr Tarun Kumar are not prohibited drugs,” the petition states.
There is no evidence to show that the prescribed drug was given to Sushant Singh Rajput or anyone else, he said.
There is nothing in the FIR that suggests the petitioners used the prescription to purchase the alleged drugs from a third party or instigated Sushant Singh Rajput, according to the plea.
The current FIR was filed on a very vague complaint based on supposed guesses and assumptions with ulterior motives to frame the petitioners (Priyanka and Meetu), he said.
The plea alleged that Rhea Chakraborty tarnished the image of the suspect Singh Rajput by suggesting that he suffered from mental illnesses and was a drug addict.
