V Narayan (THE TIMES OF INDIA; July 19, 2020)

Mumbai: The statement of filmmaker Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films was recorded on Saturday as part of the police probe into the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

An officer from Bandra police station said, “Chopra said his production house had signed Sushant for three movies of which two were completed. The third ‘Paani’ did not work out due to some creative differences between him [Chopra] and director Shekhar Kapur.”

Chopra reportedly told them that there were no issues between Sushant and him. DCP Abhishek Trimukhe confirmed that Chopra’s statement was recorded.

The police have also recorded statements of four doctors who treated Sushant for depression.

A police officer said they have gone through Sushant’s bank account and they had found a few transactions that were done by his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty but it seems it was done with his knowledge.
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BOMBAY TIMES (July 19, 2020)

Mumbai Police on Saturday recorded the statement of Yash Raj Films’ (YRF) head, Aditya Chopra, as part of their investigation into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death by suicide on June 14. He was reportedly interrogated for over four hours. The police are yet to release the filmmaker’s statement.

However, according to reports, Aditya Chopra refuted the claims made by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who had said that Sushant had slipped into depression after Paani, a project backed by YRF, was shelved.

Sushant had reportedly signed a three-film contract with the banner, and starred in two of their productions — Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (2015). He was scheduled to work in a third project — Shekhar Kapur’s Paani — but it got shelved.

Over the past few weeks, Mumbai Police have recorded the statements of several industry colleagues and friends of Sushant, including actress Rhea Chakraborty (his girlfriend), Sanjana Sanghi (his co-star of his last film, Dil Bechara) and filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. On June 28, the police had also questioned Shanoo Sharma, a casting director at YRF, in connection with the probe.

Meanwhile, the hashtag #ImmediateCBIForSSR started trending on Twitter yesterday, as netizens kept demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the actor’s death.