Actress death case: Session court frames charges against Sooraj Pancholi

Actress death case: Session court frames charges against Sooraj Pancholi

A session court on Tuesday framed charges against Bollywood actor Sooraj Pancholi under section 306 (abatement of suicide) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) in connection with actress Jiah Khan suicide case.

Jiah was found hanging at her room on June 3, 2013 at her Mumbai residence by her mother Rabiya.

The actress left behind a suicide note blaming Sooraj for the extreme step.

In October 2013, Jiah’s mother had moved the High Court and sought a CBI probe in the case while alleging that her daughter had been murdered.

Following the High Court had directed, the CBI took over the probe from the Mumbai police in July 2014.

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According to the chargesheet, Khan, 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.