IANS/Mumbai
The Central Bureau of Investigation has concluded that Bollywood actress Jiah Khan committed suicide on June 3, 2013 following a disturbed relationship with actor Sooraj Pancholi.
“The Board of Forensic Medicine Experts has opined that the death was ‘suicidal’ in nature which corroborated the observation and opinion of the postmortem doctor,” the CBI said on Wednesday, after a thorough scientific examination of the documents and material evidence.
“Moreover, the Forensic Statement Analysis of the suicide note written by Jiah Khan had opined that the unsigned three-pager note allegedly represents her mental status genuinely and the circumstance and reasons behind her suicide,” the CBI said.
Pancholi, the son of actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, has been booked under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for abetment to suicide while murder has been ruled out.
Emphasising the charge against Pancholi, the CBI said: “The wilful conduct of the accused, narrated in the note of Nafisa Rizvi alias Jiah Khan, and her intimate relationship, physical abuse, mental and physical torture by Sooraj, which she experienced allegedly led the deceased to commit suicide.”
Khan, 25, who was reportedly four-weeks pregnant and had allegedly aborted the foetus before she took the extreme step, had met Pancholi through Facebook in 2012 and their friendship blossomed into an intimate relationship.
On June 3, 2013, Khan left Pancholi’s home where she had stayed with him for two-three days.
She and Pancholi had a bitter exchange of words on their mobile phones and she had accused him of lying about his ‘meeting with a common lady friend’.
Enraged by her continuous messages, Pancholi deleted Khan’s BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) account from his mobile, the CBI said.
Later, Khan called him at midnight and another verbal duel occurred between them which lasted for around 400 pulses, and he had sent certain “abusive and accusatory” text messages from his mobile to her, the agency said.
When her mother Rabiya returned home, she found Khan hanging from the bedroom ceiling fan and informed the police.
In October 2013, Rabiya had petitioned the Bombay High Court, alleging that her daughter was murdered and demanded a CBI probe.
