ED questions Rhea’s father, brother quizzed by CBI
| Date :28-Aug-2020 |
CBI team probing actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case arrives at DRDO office in Santacruz, Mumbai on Thursday. (PTI)
MUMBAI,
A TEAM of Mumbai police reached the residence of actress Rhea Chakraborty, who is accused of abetting actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, in Santacruz here on Thursday and took her father along for a questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), an official said. The police team reached Chakraborty’s house as per the request made by the ED, the official said.
“The ED requested the Mumbai police to reach their house and escort Rhea’s father Indrajit out as it wants to question him,” the police official said. “Accordingly, some police personnel reached their residence in the afternoon and took her father along for a questioning by the central agency,” he added. However, he did not specify whether her father was taken to the ED office in south Mumbai or some other location.
Earlier in the day, Rhea said in a social media post that there was a threat to her and her family’s life and requested the Mumbai police for protection. She took to Instagram and shared a video where her father was seen being hounded by the media outside her building compound. The ED is probing a money laundering angle into the death of Rajput and has questioned Rhea twice earlier. It has obtained “deleted WhatsApp messages” after forensic examination of her phone.
CBI questions Rhea’s brother Showik
MUMBAI,
Aug 27 (IANS)
CONTINUING with the high-profile probe into Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned brother of actress Rhea Chakraborty, Showik, for a grilling session, official sources said. Showik Chakraborty’s questioning has been taking place at the DRDO and IAF guesthouse here since morning. Among other things, Showik is being confronted with the statements of Sushant’s flatmate Siddharth Pithani, his house-help Dipesh Sawant, cook Neeraj Singh; and the CBI will also record his version in the matter.
Showik was a regular visitor to the Mont Blanc duplex flat in Bandra where Sushant and Rhea lived and had also accompanied them on some foreign trips. As per Rhea’s latest revelations, all three were equal partners in a new business venture -- Rhealityx Pvt. Ltd., considered a dream project of the late actor who was found dead in his home on June 14. Previously, Rhea, Showik and their father, retired Lt. Col. Dr. Indrajit Chakraborty, were subjected to grilling by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
In a latest development, the late actor’s father, K K Singh made a sensational allegation on Thursday, accusing Rhea of ‘murder’, who he claimed has been poisoning his son Sushant for a very long time and demanded that the investigating agencies must arrest her and her associates.
