Sushant Singh Rajput’s lawyer hopes new CBI director will prioritise the actor’s case

Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s lawyer, Vikas Singh, said that he and Sushant’s family have renewed hopes that the new CBI director will give “some priority” to the late actor’s death case and get the “charge-sheet filed at the earliest.”

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Commenting on the CBI’s handling of the case, Singh told news agency ANI, “It’s very surprising that CBI hasn’t been able to do anything. CBI should have done custodial interrogation of persons named in FIR & those who were at his residence especially (Siddharth) Pithani because he changed his stand.”

According to the lawyer of Sushant’s family, Sidharth Pithani, the late actor’s flatmate, had been initially in support of the family pursuing a criminal case, but later “did a turn-around” as he became one of the accused in the case.

He had called it “poetic justice” when Pithani had been taken into judicial custody last month.

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Singh also talked about the AIIMS report which had ruled out Sushant’s death as a “pure and simple case of suicide”.

“Today, I’ve also seen some AIIMS reports coming out. Same head of AIIMS told me personally when he had seen the strangulation mark from picture of SSR that this is 200% strangulation, (sic)” the family’s lawyer said, as quoted by ANI.

The late Bollywood actor was found dead at his Bandra home on July 14, 2020. Monday marks the first death anniversary of the late actor.