Jiah Khan Suicide Case: “As a consequence of paucity of proof, Sooraj Pancholi is acquitted,” the choose pronounced.
New Delhi:
Nearly a decade after actor Jiah Khan’s death by suicide, a particular CBI court docket in Mumbai in the present day acquitted her boyfriend and movie star Sooraj Pancholi of abetment fees. Jiah Khan, 25, was discovered hanging at her Juhu house in Mumbai on June 3, 2013. Police later arrested Sooraj Pancholi on the premise of a six-page letter, purportedly written by Jiah, and booked him for abetment of suicide. Jiah’s mom Rabia Khan had claimed that she was killed.
Particular Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court docket choose AS Sayyad directed the accused to step ahead, asking 32-year-old Mr Pancholi his title, and pronounced — “As a consequence of paucity of proof, Sooraj Pancholi is acquitted”.
Sooraj Pancholi, the son of actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, confronted a jail time period of as much as 10 years if convicted. His mom accompanied him to the court docket for the decision.
Mr Pacnholi was arrested within the case in June 2013 and launched on bail in July 2013.
Jiah’s mom Rabia Khan, a key prosecution witness within the case, had instructed the court docket that she believed it to be a case of homicide and never suicide. The Bombay Excessive Court docket final yr dismissed her petition in search of a recent investigation into the case.
The choose, AS Sayyad, final week heard the ultimate arguments of each side and reserved his judgment within the case.
The CBI had alleged that the letter seized by the Mumbai police, which probed the case initially, was written by Jiah Khan.
The observe narrated Jiah Khan’s “intimate relationship, bodily abuse, and psychological and bodily torture” allegedly by the hands of Sooraj Pancholi which led her to die by suicide, the central company stated.
In his closing assertion to the court docket on April 12, 2023, Sooraj Pancholi stated that he had been booked in a false case and that he was the sufferer of a false prosecution and persecution. He claimed he had damaged down when he heard about Jiah’s demise, and stated, “I had misplaced crucial individual of my life and the girl whom I actually liked.”
Jiah Khan is finest identified for her efficiency within the Hindi movie “Nishabd” starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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