Sooraj Pancholi IN TROUBLE: Charged For ABETTING Jiah Khan's SUICIDE
Aditya Pancholi's son Sooraj is in a soup. A little while ago, he was charged for abetting actress Jiah Khan's suicide. Jiah was found dead in her flat on June 3, 2013, under mysterious circumstances
A sessions court in Mumbai today charged Bollywood actor
Sooraj Pancholi for allegedly abetting actress Jiah Khan's suicide.
Judge K D Shirbhate framed charges against the 27-year-
old actor under section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code, to
which he pleaded not guilty.
"Sooraj pleaded innocence and the examination of
witnesses will start from February 14," his lawyer Prashant Patil said.
Sooraj Pancholi
According to the charge sheet, Jiah, best known for her
performance in film Nishabd starring Amitabh Bachchan, was found hanging at her
residence on June 3, 2013 by her mother Rabiya. She had left the house of
Sooraj Pancholi, where she had been staying for the last two days, in the
morning the same day, it said.
According to the CBI, Pancholi had "hidden facts and
fabricated information" during questioning.
Sooraj Pancholi, the son of Bollywood couple Aditya
Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, had refused to undergo polygraph or brain-mapping
tests which the agency wanted to conduct to get to the bottom of his alleged
role in the incident.
Jiah Khan
The CBI said a three-page note seized by the Mumbai
Police, which earlier probed the case, on June 10, 2013, was written by Khan
which narrated her "intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and
physical torture" allegedly at the hands of Pancholi which led her to
commit suicide.
It said the letter was not signed and even not addressed
to Sooraj Pancholi but it incriminated him.
In October 2013, Rabiya Khan had moved the Bombay High
Court alleging that her daughter had been murdered and sought a CBI probe,
which was granted.
Image Source: Twitter/ Sooraj Pancholi
