Sushant case Rhea urges CBI to act against her neighbour

    Mumbai, Oct 12 (PTI) Actress Rhea Chakraborty, accused
of abetting the suicide of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh
Rajput, on Monday urged the CBI to take action against her
neighbour for giving "false" statements to the media to misled
the investigation in the case.
    In a letter addressed to Nupur Sharma, heading the
CBI's special team, Chakraborty said her neighbour Dimple
Thawani had falsely claimed that Rajput had dropped her
(Chakraborty) to her house in suburban Mumbai in his car on
June 13, a day before he was found hanging at his residence in
Bandra.
    "Dimple Thawani made false and bogus allegations
against me knowing them to be false and misled the
investigation. The allegation was that Sushant Singh Rajput
had dropped me to my house in his car on June 13, which is
false," Chakraborty said in the letter issued through her
lawyer Satish Maneshinde.
    Thawani did not respond when contacted.
    "I say that such a conduct makes out a prima facie
case punishable under sections 203 (giving false information
about an alleged offence) and 211 (false charge of offence) of
the Indian Penal Code which is punishable with seven years
imprisonment," the letter said.
    Chakraborty and her family members had been booked by
Bihar Police for allegedly driving Rajput to suicide before
the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI).
    She was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
in September in connection with a drugs case arising out of
the investigation into Rajput death case.
    Chakraborty was granted bail by the Bombay High Court
last week. PTI SP
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