Mumbai police cooperating in Sushant probe: Bihar DGP
Top cop rules out CBI probe demand, says our men capable enough
Patna, Aug. 1: The Mumbai police is assisting the sleuths from Patna visiting the metropolis to probe the death of Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput, Bihar’s director-general of police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey said on Saturday, dubbing the allegations of misbehaviour as “rumours”.
Speaking to reporters, he said the Bihar police is capable enough to investigate the matter and has recorded statements of a number of persons.
Our team is camping in Mumbai. It has already examined and recorded the statement Rajputs close friend Mahesh Shetty. It also recorded the statement of his former girlfriend Ankita Lokhande, his sister Mitu Singh, cook Ashok, Niraj, and Dr Chavda (Dr Kersi Chavda), who treated Sushant for depression, Pandey said.
Some more persons will be examined in connection with the alleged suicide, he added.
Mr Pandey said the Bihar police wants all medico-legal evidence related to the case handed over to it, asserting that it will bring out the truth at the earliest.
A four-member team of the state police is in Mumbai to probe the suicide after it registered an FIR at the Rajiv Nagar police station here on July
25 based on a complaint lodged by Rajput’s father K.K. Singh.
Our team had a meeting with Mumbai’s deputy commissioner of police (Crime) on Friday evening. The DCP assured of cooperation... Initially, there was some confusion and non-cooperation, Mr Pandey told reporters here.
Stating that the allegations of Mumbai police’s misbehaviour with the Bihar police personnel were “rumours”, Mr Pandey said the local police there helped the sleuths from the eastern
state reach its destinations. He said that the Mumbai police did so as probably it did not want the Bihar police to encounter the media.
Mr Pandey said the Bihar police wants the forensic science laboratory reports, inquest report, post-mortem report and relevant CCTV footage in order to facilitate the probe.
The Bihar police also wants details of those who were examined by the Mumbai police and what they have said in their statements, the top police chief said.