Sushant Singh Rajput case live updates: Whatever happened to our officer in Mumbai not right, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar voices strong disapproval of "forcible" quarantine of an IPS officer from Patna, hours after he landed in Mumbai to lead a Special Investigation Team probing the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

BJP party leader in BMC Vinod Mishra has alleged that Maharashtra government is using BMC to derail the investigation in the Sushant Singh Rajput case and that the local P south municipal ward officer personally went to stamp the IPS Vinay Tiwari under pressure

No politician's name came up during the investigation. There is no evidence against any politician from any party: Param Bir Singh, Mumbai Commissioner of Police on Sushant Singh Rajput death case

There is no question of non-cooperation, we are legally examining whether they (Bihar police) have jurisdiction or not in Sushant Singh Rajput case. Still, if they've got jurisdiction then they should prove it: Mumbai Police Commissioner on Bihar police's claim of non-cooperation

Sushant's father, sister and brother in law's statement were recorded on June 16. At that moment, they didn't raise any suspicion neither they complained about any lapse in our investigation: Param Bir Singh, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai on Sushant Singh Rajput Death Case

Mumbai police roped in BMC for quarantining SP before he could start working on SSR case: Sources

Till now statements of 56 people have been recorded, all angles are being investigated be it a professional rivalry, financial transactions or health, said Param Bir Singh, Mumbai Commissioner of Police reports ANI.

Patna City SP Vinay Tiwari quarantined after he reached Mumbai to supervise the probe being conducted by Bihar Police into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput; his hand stamped indicating isolation period till August 15: Police

Leader of opposition in the assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav supported Babloo's demand for a CBI probe and asked why the 'double engine' government was making delay in handing over the Sushant case to the CBI.

Patna: Issues related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput case raised in Bihar assembly here on Monday. BJP MLA and Sushant's first cousin Neeraj Singh Babloo demanded a CBI probe into alleged 'murder' of Sushant case in the assembly.

4 Bihar Police officers are already in Mumbai, they also went there on a flight but were not quarantined. We sent an IPS officer to speed up the probe but he was quarantined when he started his investigation: Bihar Minister Sanjay Jha

Mumbai Police investigation is progressing in the right direction, in a professional manner: Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh

The view that the Sushant case deserved a deeper, more independent probe continued to find takers, especially among politicians and the bureaucracy in Bihar. Union minister R K Singh said, “Mumbai police did precious little after the incident. They didn’t lodge a formal FIR even after interrogation of a number of suspects.”

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray met chief secretary Sanjay Kumar, CP Parambir Singh and DGP Subodh Jaiswal on Sunday evening to review the broad contours of the case. “He just wanted to take a review of the investigation and technicalities as one more state (Bihar) is also involved in the probe,” said an official.

Bihar Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey on Sunday alleged that Tiwari was "forcibly quarantined" by civic authorities in Mumbai.

Tiwari arrived in Mumbai on Sunday and was quarantined by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities late in the night for 14 days at the State Reserve Police Force quarter in suburban Goregaon, a police official said. His hand was also stamped showing the quarantine period till August 15.

With the Bihar cops’ attempt to access documents linked to the alleged suicide of Sushant’s manager Disha Salian (28) stonewalled, the Bihar government sent Patna city SP Vinay Tiwary to Mumbai to “remove obstacles”.

Days after a Bihar police team reached Mumbai to probe the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case, a turf battle has broken out between law enforcement officers from the two regions, with even ministers weighing in to control the investigation.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh said the Bihar team had exceeded their brief: the law requires an offence to be probed by police and courts within whose jurisdiction it has been committed.