Sushant Rajput case: CBI’s SIT divided in 3 groups to take forward investigation
Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 20
A day after the Supreme Court handed over the Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency on Thursday decided to divide the Special Investigation Team (SIT) into three groups and sent them to Mumbai to begin investigation on the ground.
The team would reach Mumbai tonight and begin the process of investigation tomorrow, said sources in the agency, adding that each group has been assigned different tasks, as one of them will look into documents and the case diary, while the second group will interrogate Rhea Chakraborty, her family members and other accused in the case and third will probe the alleged ‘Dubai mafia’ link with Bollywood, if any.
The sources said Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Suvej Haq has been made the nodal CBI officer to coordinate with Mumbai Police in getting all the relevant documents pertaining to the case.
The core investigation and interrogation of the accused and others will be done by the team led by Superintendent of Police (SP) Nupur Prasad, who would be reaching Mumbai tonight, they added.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is reported to have said that the CBI team coming to Mumbai would be exempted from quarantine.
Earlier, when Bihar IPS official Vinay Tiwari visited Mumbai to conduct a probe in the case, he was put under home quarantine by civic authorities.
According to CBI officials in the know of the probe related affairs said the agency officers would most likely visit the Bandra flat, where Rajput was found dead on June 14 and will begin questioning the first five visitors at the residence after his death.
It is also learnt that the CBI officials will meet Meetu Singh, one of Rajput’s sisters to get more details in the case.
The CBI took over the probe into the death of the 34-year-old Bollywood star on August 7 after the Centre issued a notification in this regard following the Bihar Government’s recommendation for the same.
The agency then re-registered a case against Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, her mother Sandhya, father Indrajit, brother Showik, Sushant’s ex-manager Shruti Modi and flatmate Samuel Miranda and unknown others on the basis of the complaint filed the actor’s father KK Singh with the Bihar Police on July 25.
