Rhea Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput were close friends. (Archive photo)
New Delhi:
Actress Rhea Chakraborty asked the cybercrime cell to investigate the threats of rape and murder she received after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput last month.
Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Bandra apartment in Mumbai on June 14. Rajput, 34, died by suicide, police said.
Since then, Ms. Chakraborty – a close friend of Sushant Singh Rajput – has been the victim of online hatred and users have blamed her for her death.
The 28-year-old actress said that even if she had finally turned off hate messages in the comments section of her Instagram page, the harassment was now unbearable.
She shared a screenshot of a hate message she received on Instagram.
“I was called a gold digger. Remained silent, I was called a murderer. I kept silent, I was ashamed, I kept silent. I’m not committing suicide, “the actor wrote, tagging the alleged online attacker.
No one should be subjected to this type of “toxicity and harassment,” she added.
Rhea Chakraborty tagged the cell and asked the authorities to investigate the threats.
“I ask @cyber_crime_helpline @cybercrimeindia to take the necessary action. That’s enough,” she wrote.
Shortly after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, Maharashtra’s Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh said police in Mumbai would also examine the angle of “professional rivalry”, which is believed to be the cause of suicide .
On June 18, Ms. Chakraborty was called to the Bandra police station to record her statement.
Rhea Chakraborty, star of films such as Mere Dad Ki Maruti and Jalebi, and Sushant Singh Rajput were close friends. On her birthday in January, she shared this post on Instagram, calling it “The Most Beautiful Supermassive Black Hole Known in Humanity” – Mr. Rajput was a passionate amateur astronomer and science enthusiast, completing his own Instagram feed with publications on planets and cosmos.
