SSR suicide: Probe disrupted due to my quarantine, says Bihar IPS Vinay Tiwari

PATNA: City SP (central) Vinay Tiwari, after returning from Mumbai late on Friday night, said the investigation being carried out by the four-member police team in the Sushant Singh Rajput alleged suicide case was disrupted because of his “forced quarantine”. Tiwari was received at the Patna airport by DGP Gupteshwar Pandey.
“My quarantine should not be seen as a person’s quarantine. The investigation was quarantined. It was a constitutional right of the state police to carry out after registering FIR in the case in Patna but it got disrupted with my quarantine,” Tiwari said.
The SP was quarantined on August 2 by the civic authorities in Mumbai citing Covid-19 protocols after he reached there to coordinate with the Mumbai police in the Sushant case. The SP was exempted from quarantine after two letters were written to the BMC by Bihar Police.
“There’s nothing to explain their (BMC’s) behaviour was quite clear in the way they behaved with me but none from the four-member team of Patna police were quarantined in Mumbai by the authorities concerned,” he said, responding to a query if the act of the authorities in Mumbai was unprofessional.
The SP said some things need not be said explicitly when asked if his quarantine was a deliberate act to stop the state police’s investigation being carried out in Mumbai. Tiwari said the investigation being done in the case stopped after August 2 when he was quarantined.
He said no one came to receive him at Mumbai airport even after his senior and Patna SSP Upendra Kumar Sharma communicated about his travel plan to Mumbai to Maharahstra Police authorities.
It was after Tiwari’s quarantine that the state government recommended CBI investigation into the case, which was lodged with Rajiv Nagar police station in Patna on July 25 by Sushant’s father KK Singh.
He pressed charges of abetment of suicide, unlawful confinement, cheating and criminal conspiracy against actress Rhea Chakraborty, her parents, brother and other known associates in Sushant’s death.