Today Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s father met with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in state capital Patna to thank the Janata Dal United chief for recommending a CBI probe into the death of his son.
Sitting at a distance from each other and wearing masks – COVID-19 cases are rising in Bihar – the Chief Minister and the actor’s father, KK Singh, exchanged greetings before they moved to discussing the case briefly. Mr Singh was accompanied by his eldest daughter and her husband, an Indian Police Service officer.
Mr Singh alleged had the Bihar Chief Minister not intervened and recommended a CBI probe into his son’s death, the Maharashtra government would have closed the case.
Nearly two months later, the Bihar government asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the case, which meant the Patna Police and the Mumbai Police would no longer pursue it.
The Chief Minister reportedly told Mr Singh and his family that the state government felt something wrong when Maharashtra Police did not cooperate with Patna Police officers who had gone to Mumbai to investigate the case.
He said: An Indian Police Service officer from Bihar was kept under quarantine for hours after he landed in Mumbai on August 3. The Bihar government decided to let the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) take over the case due to these incidents.
