Slamming the CBI for its delay in the investigations into the Sushant Singh Rajput case, the Maharashtra Congress on Monday demanded to know from the investigation agency as to “why there is so much silence” on its part on the forensic report submitted to it more than a month ago by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), which had “concluded” that the actor committed suicide.
“It's been a month since the AIIMS report was submitted to the CBI and there is neither any action nor any official statement issued by CBI as yet. Why is there so much silence?,” Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee’s general secretary and spokesperson Sachin Sawant asked.
Sawant said that the investigations into the Sushant Singh Rajput death case was handed over to the CBI after “some people raised questions” about the probe carried out earlier by the Mumbai police.
“But, even the CBI has not been able to reach any conclusion. Suspicion was also raised on the autopsy report given by the Cooper hospital. The AIIMS team said in its report that Sushant committed suicide The AIIMS panel also confirmed the findings of the autopsy report prepared by the Cooper Hospital and it was concluded that Sushant had committed suicide,” the state Congress spokesperson said, as he questioned the CBI as to why it had not spoken anything about the report.
Raising questions on the CBI’s role in the investigations, Sawant wanted to know if the CBI was following the election code of conduct imposed due to the Bihar elections. “Or has Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked them not to act until the elections are over?, he asked.
“We have been saying from the very start that the Sushant case has been politicised and was being used to serve political interests of BJP. The Supreme Court too has validated the investigations done by the Mumbai Police in the case,” Sawant said.
Sawant said he had a reason to believe that the Narendra Modi government might have asked the CBI to remain silent as the “conspiracy hatched by the BJP” had fallen on its face.
“A conspiracy was hatched to discredit the Mumbai Police and the Maharashtra government by playing dirty politics over Sushant Singh's death. That is why it has now been proven that three central investigative agencies, including the CBI, were used politically. Sawant also said that the CBI may have been asked to remain silent as the plot that the BJP hatched has fallen on its face,” the Congress spokesperson said.
It may be recalled that Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found hanging to a ceiling fan in his closed room of his duplex flat at Mont Blanc building at Bandra’s Carter Road in north-west Mumbai on June 14.
Having registered a case of Accidental Death Report (ADR) in connection with Sushant’s death, the Bandra police had collected all documents and pieces of evidence, including autopsy and forensic reports and recorded 56 statements as part of the investigations carried out by it under section 174 of Cr PC. After substantial investigations, the Mumbai police had inferred Sushant’s death was a case of “suicide”.
In the third week of August, the Supreme Court transferred the investigations in the case to the CBI.
In its crucial forensic report submitted to the CBI in the first week of October, the AIIMS -- which studied Sushant’s autopsy report, the injury pattern on Sushant’s body and correlated it with circumstantial evidence and also examined the preserved viscera – had ruled out the possibility of a “murder” and said that it was a clear case of “suicide”.