Jiah Khan suicide case: HC rejects her mother’s plea to reopen investigation | Bollywood

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Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia Khan has been denied the request to reopen the investigation into the actor’s demise. Jiah was found hanging at her Mumbai residence on June 3, 2013, after which her mother had accused her boyfriend, Sooraj Pancholi, of abetment to suicide. Rabia had filed a up to date enchantment throughout the Bombay High Court to reopen the nine-year-old case, alleging errors throughout the prior investigation carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Also Read| Jiah Khan had accused Sooraj Pancholi of abuse sooner than alleged suicide: Mother

However, the Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by Rabia. In her plea, Rabia alleged that her daughter was murdered and sought a up to date probe into the case by an unbiased and explicit firm with assist from the United States’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Her advocates Shekhar Jagtap and Sairuchita Chowdhary argued that Mumbai Police’s preliminary investigation into the case moreover had ‘positive flaws’ and ‘incorrect methodology,’ after which Rabia had moved the HC and the probe was transferred to the CBI in July 2014. However, CBI devoted the an identical ‘errors’ and subsequently she is seeking a re-investigation of the case by unbiased businesses.

As per a report in PTI, a division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and M N Jadhav rejected the plea and well-known that it has faith in CBI’s probe throughout the case. CBI had charged Sooraj Pancholi with abetting her suicide and carried out an investigation. Advocate Sandesh Patil, exhibiting for the CBI, moreover argued that the corporate has investigated the case fairly. The courtroom docket moreover well-known that the petitioner, Rabia, was weakening her private case by submitting such a plea. Rejecting the plea, the bench well-known that it’s going to go an in depth order later.

Rabia Khan had beforehand knowledgeable a selected courtroom docket in Mumbai closing month that Jiah had accused Sooraj Pancholi of bodily and psychological abuse a couple of months sooner than her demise. She said, “Both the businesses (police and CBI) not at all collected any legal proof to present it was a case of suicide. I think about it’s a murder and the accused is chargeable for killing my daughter.”

Jiah Khan made her debut with Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Nishabd in 2007. The subsequent 12 months, she starred alongside Aamir Khan in Ghajini. Her cameo throughout the 2010 film Housefull marked her closing on-screen look.


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