Actor Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde has
released a statement after Mumbai Police, on Tuesday, said in a court that they
were ‘duty-bound’ to register an FIR against Sushant Singh Rajput’s
sisters.

Rhea had filed a case against Sushant’s sisters-Meetu Singh and Priyanka Singh- for allegedly forging a prescription and giving medicines to the late actor without consultation. The late actor’s sisters filed a petition to quash the FIR lodged against them.

The Mumbai police on Monday filed an affidavit in the HC seeking
dismissal of the petition filed by Sushant’s sisters to quash the FIR lodged
against them.

Now, Rhea’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde has issued a
statement, which reads, “The FIR filed by Rhea Chakraborty was for a specific
offence of having forged a prescription and administered illegally, medicines
which were already communicated to Sushant Singh Rajput by Priyanka Singh in
her messages on 8th June 2020.”

“Those medicines were administered more so when the family
was aware that SSR was addicted to drugs and under treatment at Mumbai,”
Maneshinde said.

Maneshinde also clarified the reason why Rhea left
Sushant’s home on June 8, a week before the actor’s death on June 14.

“SSR was consulting 5 doctors in Mumbai who had
advised him to abstain from Narcotic Substances as he was being treated for
Mental Health issues. Since SSR refused to accede to Rhea’s suggestion to
follow the advice of the Mumbai Doctors, her departure from SSR home was
inevitable, as per the wishes of SSR,” said the lawyer.

Sushant, 34, was found dead at his residence in Bandra on
June 14.