The case is slowly tightening around a group of Bollywood celebrities, such as Salman Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala and Karan Johar, in connection with the suicide of young Bihar actor Sushant Singh Rajput with the number of cases multiplying every day and the politicians mounting pressures for a CBI probe into the entire incident.
A case has been registered against eight big names in Bollywood including superstar Salman Khan, producers Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and Ekta Kapoor in a court in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur. The sudden demise of Sushant Singh Rajput by suicide has put several A-listers under the scanner, facing allegations of bias against “outsiders” in the industry on social media.
Advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha has now filed a complaint under Sections 306 (Abetment of suicide), 109 (Punishment of abetment), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of IPC in connection with the actor’s death in a Bihar court.
Speaking to ANI, the lawyer said, “In the complaint, I have alleged that Sushant Singh Rajput was removed from around seven films and some of his films were not released. Such a situation was created which forced him to take the extreme step.”
Sushant, 34, who hails from Bihar’s Purnia district had committed suicide on 14 June and many allege he had gone into depression after facing torture from the “Bollywood gang”.
In a fresh development, the Swarn Sena’s national president Bhagwat Sharma filed a case against Salman Khan and Karah Johar in the court of chief judicial magistrate, Patna, today charging the accused persons with instigating Sushant to commit suicide.
This move came after Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam claimed in a tweet that Sushant lost seven films in just six months. “The film industry’s ruthlessness works on a very different level. And that ruthlessness took the life of one talented person,” Nirupam tweeted.
The 34-year-old actor died by suicide on June 14 at his Bandra apartment. According to the latest reports, Mumbai Police are investigating this case very carefully after Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh assured every possible support.