
Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer says grateful to CBI for closing Sushant Singh Rajput death case
The Hindu
Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer welcomes CBI closure report in Sushant Singh Rajput case, dismisses false media narrative.
Actor Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde on Saturday (March 22, 2025) welcomed the closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the alleged suicide case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
“We are grateful to the CBI for having thoroughly investigated every aspect of the case from all angles and closed the case,” he said in a statement.
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The CBI has submitted its findings before a special court in Mumbai which will now decide whether to accept the report or order further probe by the agency, officials said.
The central agency had taken over the probe from the Bihar police which had registered an abetment of suicide case on a complaint filed in Patna by the actor’s father K K Singh.
In its conclusive medico-legal opinion to the CBI, forensic specialists at AIIMS had dismissed the claims of “poisoning and strangling” made in the case.
The CBI had recorded the statements of Rhea Chakraborty and others in his close circle and collected the actor's medical records.

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