Sushant Singh Rajput‘s family’s lawyer Vikas Singh, on Tuesday, said
that the Mumbai Police “forced” the late actor’s family members to sign a
statement written in Marathi. He
added that they had ‘no clue of what was being written’.

Addressing a press conference,
Singh said, “The
family has never given any statement of Sushant dying by suicide. These
statements were recorded by the Mumbai Police in Marathi. The family also
objected, ‘Please don’t write in Marathi if you want us to sign.’ They were
forced to sign a statement written in Marathi. They had no clue of what was
being written.”

He
claimed that the statement has not been shared with the family. “We have not
been supplied that statement. We don’t know what was recorded by the Mumbai
Police, we know what we said,” he added.

On being questioned if the statement was
read out to the late actor’s family in Hindi before being signed, Singh said,
“It was just written in Marathi, that’s it. There was nothing read out to
anybody. Even if you read out in Marathi… If I write something in a language
you don’t know and I then read out whatever I want you to hear… If I don’t know
Marathi, how will I check if what you are telling me is what is written. It’s
simple logic!”

Sushant died
on June 14 and initially, the case was being investigated by the Mumbai Police.
However, on July 25, his father filed an FIR in Patna against Rhea Chakraborty,
accusing her of abetment to suicide.

After a turf
war between the police forces of Maharashtra and Bihar, the case is now being
probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

As the CBI continues its probe, a parallel
investigation is being run by the Enforcement Directorate and Narcotics Control
Bureau, who are looking into the money laundering and drugs angles,
respectively.