MUMBAI/PATNA: After their 10-day stay in the city to probe the alleged suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a four-member team of Patna police left on Thursday morning, giving a slip to the BMC team which had planned to home quarantine them. However, their team leader, Patna SP (central) Vinay Tiwari, is still stuck in Mumbai as the BMC has refused to exempt him from 14-day quarantine. A senior BMC official told TOI they were aware all the four SIT cops had left the city.
The team of inspectors, Manoranjan Bharti and Mohammad Kaisar Alam, Rajiv Nagar SHO Nishant Singh and sub-inspector Durgesh Gehlot, landed at Patna airport around 12.30pm and went straight to IG (central) Sanjay Singh’s office where he along with SSP Upendra Kumar Sharma reviewed the evidence and other material gathered by the team. Singh told TOI the four-member team has to complete the case diary immediately as it has to be handed over to the CBI soon and a status report of the probe is also to be submitted before the SC by Friday. “We reviewed the evidence gathered. We have statements of witnesses, bank statements and other material which the team has gathered. They were not provided the post-mortem report, inquest reports, photographs of spot and body and other medico-legal documents,” Singh said.
The Bihar police headquarters on Thursday shot off another letter to the BMC demanding the release of SP Tiwari from home quarantine. The letter by ADG (headquarters) Jitendra Kumar to the BMC commissioner mentions the SC’s oral observation that quarantining the IPS officer was objectionable and it had sent a wrong message. The ADG said since the case has been handed over to CBI, Tiwari should be allowed to return to Patna to discharge his duties.
Meanwhile, a senior minister in the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar slammed the Maharashtra government for its “non-cooperation” in the probe. State water resources minister Sanjay Jha claimed Rajput’s family first got the indication of non-cooperation from an article written by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in the party mouthpiece—Saamana—in which he wrote “there was no need of any investigation into SSR’s death by suicide”.
“It was a clear indication for the higher-ups in the Mumbai police on how to approach the case related to a Bihar-born actor,” Jha said.
(Inputs from V Narayan)
The team of inspectors, Manoranjan Bharti and Mohammad Kaisar Alam, Rajiv Nagar SHO Nishant Singh and sub-inspector Durgesh Gehlot, landed at Patna airport around 12.30pm and went straight to IG (central) Sanjay Singh’s office where he along with SSP Upendra Kumar Sharma reviewed the evidence and other material gathered by the team. Singh told TOI the four-member team has to complete the case diary immediately as it has to be handed over to the CBI soon and a status report of the probe is also to be submitted before the SC by Friday. “We reviewed the evidence gathered. We have statements of witnesses, bank statements and other material which the team has gathered. They were not provided the post-mortem report, inquest reports, photographs of spot and body and other medico-legal documents,” Singh said.
The Bihar police headquarters on Thursday shot off another letter to the BMC demanding the release of SP Tiwari from home quarantine. The letter by ADG (headquarters) Jitendra Kumar to the BMC commissioner mentions the SC’s oral observation that quarantining the IPS officer was objectionable and it had sent a wrong message. The ADG said since the case has been handed over to CBI, Tiwari should be allowed to return to Patna to discharge his duties.
Meanwhile, a senior minister in the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar slammed the Maharashtra government for its “non-cooperation” in the probe. State water resources minister Sanjay Jha claimed Rajput’s family first got the indication of non-cooperation from an article written by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in the party mouthpiece—Saamana—in which he wrote “there was no need of any investigation into SSR’s death by suicide”.
“It was a clear indication for the higher-ups in the Mumbai police on how to approach the case related to a Bihar-born actor,” Jha said.
(Inputs from V Narayan)
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