IPS officer Vinay Tiwari after arriving in Mumbai. (PTI)
Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey on Sunday charged that Vinay Tiwari, the IPS officer from Patna who is in Mumbai to probe a case related to Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, has been “forcibly quarantined” by civic authorities in the metropolis. He also said that Tiwari was also “denied” a stay at IPS mess and the four-member Patna Police team members, who have been in Mumbai for the last six days, were not quarantined.
Tiwari is heading a Bihar Police team which is in Mumbai to investigate an ”abetment to suicide” case on the basis of a complaint filed by the late actor’s father in Patna. The Patna team has not been yet handed over basic investigation documents such as postmortem and FSL reports, citing legal constraints.
“IPS officer Vinay Tiwari reached Mumbai today from Patna on official duty to lead the police team there but he has been forcibly quarantined by BMC officials at 11 PM today,” Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Pandey tweeted.
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“He was not provided accommodation in the IPS mess, despite request, and was staying in a Guest House in Goregaon,” he said.
Rajput, 34, was found hanging from the ceiling of his Bandra residence on June 24 last.
Last month, Rajput’s father lodged an FIR here of abetment to suicide naming actress Rhea Chakraborty, said to be close to the deceased Patna-born actor, and her family members as accused. Tiwari was posted as the City SP (East) in Patna. While Rhea has asked for transfer of Patna case against her, Bihar government had also filed caveat in the apex court requesting to hear its plea as well.
The Mumbai Police, which is also probing the death case, have so far recorded statements of nearly 40 people, including those from Rajput’s family, his cook and people from the film industry that include filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, film critic Rajeev Masand, director-producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali and filmmaker Aditya Chopra.