Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case has now been transferred to CBI.

In February, four months before actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, his police officer brother-in-law O P Singh messaged a senior Mumbai police officer claiming that the family feared his life was “going downhill” and was at risk, and that he had “surrendered to a manipulative group of people”.

Rajput’s father K K Singh had earlier said that the reason he approached Bihar Police with a complaint against actor Rhea Chakraborty was that Mumbai Police had not acted on complaints sent to them as early as February.

O P Singh, an IGP-rank Haryana cadre police officer posted as Commissioner of Police, Faridabad, had spoken to and corresponded with then DCP Zone IX P S Dahiya over WhatsApp. Screenshots of the messages seen by The Indian Express include one written to O P Singh by one of Rajput’s sisters, a Delhi-based lawyer, which too he had forwarded to Dahiya. The message names two of Rhea Chakraborty’s associates, accusing them of being part of a conspiracy “to destroy Sushant monetarily, mentally and physically”.

However, Dahiya said he could not have taken action without a written complaint.

“I was also asked to call Rhea for questioning. However, they were not willing to give any written complaint. I informed him (Singh) that in the absence of a formal complaint I cannot illegally call someone to the police station,” Dahiya told The Indian Express.