New Delhi: It has been three years since actress Jiah Khan committed suicide on June 3, 2013, but the controversy surrounding her death refuses to fade away. Her demise has created quite the problems for actor Sooraj Pancholi, since he is accused on charges of abetment of suicide.
Now, in a new turn Sooraj Pancholi through his team of lawyers has alleged that Jiah’s mother Rabiya’s claims are baseless. In a letter to the Mumbai commissioner of police and the Juhu police station, Sooraj said that earlier Rabiya had earlier accused a Londoner of raping her daughter. The said letter was sent to CBI through Sooraj’s lawyer Prashant Patil on June 1.
In the mail, Sooraj’s team have cited a mail dated February 10, 2015, sent to the Mumbai police commissioner by a UK citizen, "Mr Bloom", who was falsely accused of raping Jiah, and that the deceased has suicidal intentions.
An insider told a leading daily,
“The mail states that the allegations [of rape and murder] levelled by Rabia have no truth in them. In fact, she is in it only to extort money. The mail also states that Jiah tried to kill herself on a couple of occasions. The evidence from a trial at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales) in London and her doctors' records are also available in London. Apart from this, the mail states that a few years ago, Rabia fabricated a rape and sexual abuse charge against a man in London.”
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The lawyer Prashant Patil also added that Rabiya’s claims are baseless. He said,
“My client came in possession of some very important documents and it was his duty as an accused to file the additional piece of evidence to the investigating agencies concerned to point out how the entire matter has been sabotaged by the complainant.”
Accusing Rabiya of suppressing evidence, Patil went on,
“The complainant has intentionally suppressed these documents. I want to specifically say that in writ petitions 919/2014, when the Bombay High Court transferred the matter to the CBI, the complainant (Rabia) intentionally suppressed the fact that the deceased had tried to commit suicide on three occasions. Had the complainant come clean to the investigating agencies, then there would have been no prima facie case of Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the IPC against my client.”
“The complainant has maliciously changed her allegations as per her own whims and fancies and she has wasted the time of the court and my client, and someone needs to be made accountable for this,”
added Patil.
