Patna: In a major turn of events, the Bihar government has recommended CBI investigation into the alleged suicide of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The move comes after Sushant’s father KK Singh spoke to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar earlier today and requested him to order a CBI probe into the actor’s death.
With several twists and turns emerging in the past few days, there has been a growing clamour from political parties as well as some Bollywood personalities to hand over the case to the CBI.
However, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had slammed the demands and asserted that the Mumbai police was capable of probing the actor’s death in June.
The young actor, 34, was found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on June 14 and since then the police have been probing the case keeping in mind various angles. Rejecting any foul play, the final post-mortem report had stated that Sushant died of asphyxia as a result of hanging.
Meanwhile, the alleged suicide of the actor reverberated in the monsoon session of the Bihar assembly as well which met in Patna on Monday.
The MLAs of all the parties in one voice demanded the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the suicide case of Sushant Singh Rajput.
Leader of Opposition in the assembly Tejashwi Yadav also demanded a fair inquiry into the matter.