New Delhi: The Supreme Court today rejected actress Rhea Chakraborty’s petition to transfer the investigation from Patna to Mumbai in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
The court said that said Bihar government was competent to give consent to CBI for probing into the Patna FIR.
A single-judge bench of Justice Hrishikesh Roy pronounced the judgement. The bench held that the contents as disclosed by the FIR registered in Patna indicate that even Mumbai Police has jurisdiction.
The apex court had reserved its judgement on Chakraborty’s petition after a hearing on 11 August.
The apex court made it clear that it was court-ordered CBI probe and that there is no room for the Maharashtra government to challenge this. It also clarified that registration of the FIR at Patna was legally valid and adhered to the principles of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Therefore, the court added, the recommendation made by Bihar government for a CBI investigation was also proper and valid. Reading out the operative part of the 35-page judgment, Justice Roy also said that Maharashtra government must comply with the orders since it is a court-ordered probe.
About the inquest proceedings conducted so far by the Mumbai Police, the court directed that all pertinent documents must be handed over the CBI henceforth.