The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson on Monday said that the CBI’s investigation related to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput is “still continuing” and all the aspects are being looked “meticulously”.
Speaking to The Daily Guardian, Rajput’s family lawyer and senior advocate Vikas Singh said that we are constantly trying to contact with the AIIMS medical team head Dr Sudhir Gupta. If we get a copy of the report, we will study it.
If there is any doubt in it, we will also write to the CBI in that regard. So that keeping in mind our doubts, the CBI should also investigate on that angle, Vikas Singh said Meanwhile, AIIMS has issued a press statement and said, “The Medical Board has submitted the report directly to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as required. Being a legal matter, any inputs on the report submitted by the Medical Board would have to be obtained from the CBI.”
On 4 October Rajput’s family lawyer Vikas Singh had said that he was highly perturbed by the AIIMS’ medico-legal opinion submitted to the CBI and would request the probe agency’s chief to constitute a fresh forensic team in the case.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh in his tweet said, “Highly perturbed with AIIMS report. Going to request CBI Director to constitute a fresh Forensic team. How could AIIMS team give a conclusive report in the absence of the body, that too on such shoddy post-mortem done by Cooper hospital wherein time of death also not mentioned?”
The sources have told The Daily Guardian that AIIMS has dismissed the theories of poisoning and strangling floated by the actor’s family and their advocate. On 3 October, AIIMS had said, in its opinion to the CBI, that actor Sushant Singh Rajput was not murdered and it is a case of suicide.
Sources said the AIIMS panel has completed the examination and closed the file after giving conclusive medico-legal opinion in this case and the CBI is corroborating the report with their investigation.
On 25 September Vikas Singh had tweeted, “Getting frustrated by the delay in CBI taking a decision to convert abetment to suicide to Murder of SSR. The Doctor who is part of AIIMS team had told me long back that the photos sent by me indicated 200% that it’s death by strangulation and not suicide.”
On 26 September responding to a tweet by Singh, Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde had said: “The disclosure of a 200% conclusion by an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctor on the forensic team headed by Dr Sudhir Gupta in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case, on the basis of photographs, is a dangerous trend. To keep the investigations impartial and free from inference, the CBI must constitute a new medical board. The agencies are being pressurised to reach a pre-determined result for obvious reasons in view of upcoming Bihar elections.”