MUMBAI: The anticipatory bail plea of TV producer Rahul Raj Singh, booked for abetment of his girlfriend actress Pratyusha Banerjee’s suicide, was today rejected by a local court after the complainant said it could be a “pre-planned murder”.
Dindoshi sessions court Judge Khwaja Farooq Ahmed dismissed the anticipatory bail application of Rahul, who was booked for abetment of suicide after Pratyusha’s parents filed a compliant against him.
When the matter came up for hearing in the court, complainant’s lawyer Falguni Brahmbhatt said, “We suspect that it could be murder and it needs to be probed. The entire incident could be pre-planned.”
She argued as to why Rahul took Pratyusha all the way to Andheri (from their residence in suburban Goregaon after she was found hanging), instead of a nearby hospital. She also sought to know why he later fled from the hospital.
“Why didn’t Rahul call police or take picture of the body before untying it from the fan,” she further asked.
Arguing for Rahul, his counsel Samir Sheikh said Pratyusha’s parents did not make any allegation against him in their first statement to police, then why did they file the FIR later.
He also said that Pratyusha didn’t leave a suicide note blaming Rahul for her death, and also there were no marks on her body other than the ligature wound.
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