The Bombay High Court has reportedly adjourned a plea by Sushant Singh Rajput’s sisters to January 7 next year. Priyanka and Meetu Singh were seeking to quash an FIR filed by Rajput‘s ex-girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, who had lodged a complaint against them alleging that they procured a "fake medical prescription" for their brother via telemedicine without consultations. Reportedly, the Singh sisters' advocate had sought an adjournment in the case. The sisters were booked by the Bandra police in September.
According to reports, Chakraborty had said in her complaint that a “bogus and unlawful” medical prescription “was sent by the petitioners (against Priyanka and Meetu) with the help of a Delhi-based doctor wherein medicines for anxiety were prescribed to Rajput.” That prescription of medicines was supposedly for anxiety prohibited under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. Rajput’s sisters denied the allegations and told the Bombay HC that the complaint was lodged against them in an attempt to take revenge.
They further alleged that Chakraborty’s complaint was based on “unfounded allegations, unsubstantiated facts, speculations and was a counterblast” to the abetment of suicide case filed against her by their father KK Singh in Bihar. The CBI, however, had earlier opposed an FIR filed against Rajput‘s sisters and labelled it as “vitiated and bad in law.”
Priyanka and Meetu Singh’s petition
Priyanka and Meetu Singhmoved the HC, seeking to quash the case filed against them by Bandra police. According to a report by The Times of India, they reportedly claimed that it was Chakraborty who “deliberately concealed” a letter she had herself written on September 14 to the police in which she “conceded that an FIR cannot be registered under section 306 (abetment of suicide) IPC.”
They also alleged that Chakraborty has put forth a “moonshine defence and self-serving averments’’ when she replied to their petition. They are now reportedly seeking a probe into her “malicious activities’’ and “damages under public law remedy for malicious prosecution.’’ Priyanka and Meetu singh said in their rejoinder that the FIR was filed “maliciously” to “wreak vengeance” and harass them due to a “personal grudge” by making “preposterous allegations.”
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About the case
A complaint was lodged by Rajput’s father in Patna, alleging that Chakraborty and her family were responsible for his son’s death by suicide on June 14. Following which, her name also popped up in the drug probe carried out by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and she was in jail for almost a month. She was out on bailed on October 7. Chakraborty on the other hand had accused Rajput’s sisters of giving him medicines without a prescription, days before his death by suicide. Meanwhile, three months after his arrest, on Wednesday (Dec 2), Chakraborty's bother Showik was granted bail by a special court in Mumbai.
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