Jiah Khan's beau to be in police custody till tomorrow.
In what may throw more light on the Jiah Khan suicide case, the police found five letters exchanged between the deceased actor and her boyfriend Suraj Pancholi in a search operation at the latter’s residence on Tuesday. Also, the police have recovered some medical reports from Jiah’s place. The police are now verifying all the documents.
Meanwhile, the Andheri metropolitan court remanded Pancholi in police custody till June 13. The Juhu police had arrested him on Monday evening on the charge of abetment to suicide considering the six-page suicide note she left behind and her mother’s statement to the police. The letter was unearthed by one of Jiah’s sisters three days after the incident.
“We have lodged a case and arrested Pancholi on the charge of abetment suicide considering Jiah‘s mother Rabiya’s statement and the six-page suicide note written by the actor. We are verifying the letter with the help of handwriting and forensic experts,” said Vishwas Nangre Patil, additional commissioner of police.
According to an officer, the police are not leaving any stone unturned to get to the bottom of the case. They are investigating the words like rape, assault, torture, cheating and abortion mentioned in Jiah’s suicide note. “We are checking with the hospital where she had taken medical treatment and trying to find out about her abortion,” said the officer.
As for Jiah’s mother Rabiya’s allegations, the police are not jumping into any conclusion.
Rabiya claimed that Suraj and Jiah were in a live-in relationship for the past one year and alleged that Suraj must have assaulted her as was evident by the bruises on her chin and neck.
“We are verifying whether Suraj assaulted her or not. We are waiting for the post mortem and forensic reports which may throw light on the fact. Rabiya also claimed Suraj had promised Jiah that he would marry her,” said another officer. “We are also trying to figure out whether Suraj had actually hit Jiah on the day of the incident and whether she was upset after Suraj sent her a ‘break-up bouquet’ in the evening,”
“We are questioning Suraj’s servant Deva and several other people to know about their relationship,” the officer added.
However, till now, the police have not checked the messages in Jiah’s two mobile phones as they have not been able to crack the password. “The messages will help us to get more information about them. We have engaged experts to open the boxes,” he added.
In a soup
Suraj Pancholi, son of actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, is remanded in police custody till June 13.
Seeking his custody, the police told the court that they have recovered five love letters exchanged between Suraj and Jiah and they wanted to verify the contents.
The CCTV footage of the hotel and the house where the two went the day Jiah ended her life has also been recovered.
Public prosecutor AK Pacharane told the court that there were serious allegations of threat, assault and rape against Suraj.
A distressed Jiah had aborted their baby and this aspect too needed to be probed, the prosecution said in its remand application.
Jiah Khan, who had made a dream debut in Bollywood with Ram Gopal Varma’s Nishabd, opposite megastar Amitabh Bachchan, had committed suicide by hanging herself.
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