'WHAT HAPPENED TO 50 CRORES WITHDRAWN FROM SUSHANT'S ACCOUNT?" BIHAR POLICE RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT INVESTIGATION!- DETAILS

Director General of Police (DGP) of Bihar Police, Gupteshwar Pandey has accused the Mumbai police of not probing the case from the financial angle in the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. He alleged that in the past four years, an amount of Rs 50 crore was withdrawn from Sushant’s account and Rs 15 crore was withdrawn from the last one year alone. 

“In the past four years, around Rs 50 crore was credited to the bank account of Sushant Singh Rajput but surprisingly all of it was withdrawn. In one year, Rs 17 crore was credited to his account, out of which Rs 15 crore was withdrawn. Isn’t this a crucial point to be investigated? We are not going to sit quiet. We will question them (Mumbai Police) as to why such leads are hushed up,” the DGP told the media, reports IANS.

Earlier, the DGP had alleged that Vinay Tiwari, the Patna (Central) Superintendent of Police who went to Mumbai to probe the case was “forcibly quarantined” there. 

“Instead of sharing evidence or handing over the postmortem and forensic reports of Sushant, they (Mumbai) have almost house arrested our SP. I have not seen such non-cooperation by any other state police. If the Mumbai Police are sincere in their approach, they should share the investigation with us,” he said, according to IANS.

On Monday, the Mumbai police commissioenr said in a press conference that no money was directly transferred from the late actor’s account to Rhea Chakraborty’s.  “Bihar Police FIR says Rs 15 crore were siphoned off from Sushant’s account. During the probe, we found he had Rs 18 crore in his account of which around Rs 4.5 crore are still there. Till now no direct transfer to Rhea Chakraborty’s account has been found, still probing,” the commissioner said.

Last month, Sushant’s father KK Singh lodged an FIR against Rhea Chakraborty and five others in connection to the death case. 

“Rhea has also been accused of abetment to suicide and threatening to frame Sushant for the death of his former manager, Disha Salian. Taking cognisance of the FIR against Rhea, the Enforcement Directorate filed a money laundering case against her and her relatives. Reportedly, she will be called in for questioning in the coming days,” Hindustan Times reported. 

The actor reportedly died by suicide on June 14 at his Bandra residence.

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