The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday issued a press statement, denying reaching any conclusion in the Sushant Singh Raput death case. “CBI continues to investigate the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. There are certain speculative reports in media that the CBI has reached a conclusion. It may be reiterated that these reports are speculative and erroneous,” it said.
Speaking to The Daily Guardian on 5 October, actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s family lawyer and senior advocate, Vikas Singh, had said, “We are constantly trying to contact 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, keeping in mind our doubts, CBI should also investigate on that angle.”
On 4 October, Vikas Singh had said in a tweet 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. “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,» he had questioned in his tweet.
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. In fact, on 3 October, AIIMS had said in its opinion to CBI that Sushant Singh Rajput had not been murdered and his death was a case of suicide.
Sources also said that the AIIMS panel has completed the examination and closed the file after giving conclusive medico-legal opinion in the case and that the CBI is corroborating the report with their investigation Earlier, on 25 September, 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.” As a response, on 26 September, 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.”