Jiah Khan suicide case: Verdict seemingly within the current day, actor Sooraj Pancholi faces abetment value

By PTI

MUMBAI:  Almost 10 years after she was found hanging at her dwelling, a specific CBI courtroom proper right here is vulnerable to pronounce its verdict on Friday throughout the Bollywood actor Jiah Khan suicide case, by which her boyfriend and film star Sooraj Pancholi has been charged with abetment.

If convicted, Sooraj, the son of actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, may face a jail time interval of as a lot as 10 years.

Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courtroom select A S Sayyad remaining week heard the last word arguments of every facet and reserved his judgment throughout the case.

Jiah (25), an American citizen, was found lifeless at her Juhu dwelling proper right here on June 3, 2013.

Police later arrested Sooraj on the premise of a six-page letter, purportedly written by the Bollywood starlet, and booked him for abetment of suicide beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) half 306.

IPC half 306 says, “If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.” 

Sooraj is at current out on bail throughout 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 phrase narrated Jiah Khan’s “intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and physical torture” allegedly by the fingers of Sooraj which led her to commit suicide, the central firm acknowledged.

The case was reassigned to a specific CBI courtroom in 2021 after the courses courtroom acknowledged that it did not have the jurisdiction over the case as a result of the central firm had probed it.

Jiah’s mother Rabia Khan, a key prosecution witness throughout the case, suggested the courtroom that she believed it to be a case of murder and by no means suicide.

The Bombay High Court had remaining 12 months dismissed her petition searching for a recent investigation into the case.

During her deposition, Rabia had suggested the CBI courtroom that Sooraj used to subject Jiah to bodily and verbal abuse.

Rabia moreover suggested the courtroom that neither the police nor the CBI had collected any “legal evidence” to point out that her daughter had devoted suicide.

Sooraj, in his final assertion filed sooner than the courtroom, had claimed the investigation and chargesheet had been false, together with that the prosecution witnesses testified in direction of him on the behest of complainant Rabia Khan, police and CBI.

Jiah Khan is biggest recognized for her effectivity in Hindi film “Nishabd” starring Amitabh Bachchan.

MUMBAI:  Almost 10 years after she was found hanging at her dwelling, a specific CBI courtroom proper right here is vulnerable to pronounce its verdict on Friday throughout the Bollywood actor Jiah Khan suicide case, by which her boyfriend and film star Sooraj Pancholi has been charged with abetment.

If convicted, Sooraj, the son of actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, may face a jail time interval of as a lot as 10 years.

Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courtroom select A S Sayyad remaining week heard the last word arguments of every facet and reserved his judgment throughout the case.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Jiah (25), an American citizen, was found lifeless at her Juhu dwelling proper right here on June 3, 2013.

Police later arrested Sooraj on the premise of a six-page letter, purportedly written by the Bollywood starlet, and booked him for abetment of suicide beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) half 306.

IPC half 306 says, “If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.” 

Sooraj is at current out on bail throughout 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 phrase narrated Jiah Khan’s “intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and physical torture” allegedly by the fingers of Sooraj which led her to commit suicide, the central firm acknowledged.

The case was reassigned to a specific CBI courtroom in 2021 after the courses courtroom acknowledged that it did not have the jurisdiction over the case as a result of the central firm had probed it.

Jiah’s mother Rabia Khan, a key prosecution witness throughout the case, suggested the courtroom that she believed it to be a case of murder and by no means suicide.

The Bombay High Court had remaining 12 months dismissed her petition searching for a recent investigation into the case.

During her deposition, Rabia had suggested the CBI courtroom that Sooraj used to subject Jiah to bodily and verbal abuse.

Rabia moreover suggested the courtroom that neither the police nor the CBI had collected any “legal evidence” to point out that her daughter had devoted suicide.

Sooraj, in his final assertion filed sooner than the courtroom, had claimed the investigation and chargesheet had been false, together with that the prosecution witnesses testified in direction of him on the behest of complainant Rabia Khan, police and CBI.

Jiah Khan is biggest recognized for her effectivity in Hindi film “Nishabd” starring Amitabh Bachchan.