Cops claim that actor’s IPS brother-in-law wanted Samuel Miranda to be taken into custody and interrogated on an ‘informal basis’
Vallabh Ozarkar (THE TIMES OF INDIA; August 5, 2020)

Details of conversation and WhatsApp communication between Haryana-based IPS officer O P Singh, brother-in-law of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and Paramjit Singh Dahiya, then deputy commissioner, Zone 9, Bandra police, emerged on Tuesday. The developments came a day after Rajput’s family released a text/screenshot of a complaint sent by Singh to Dahiya stating that there was a threat to the actor’s life, and that Mumbai police had ignored the family’s concerns in February.

Dahiya told Mumbai Mirror on Tuesday that Singh had asked Bandra police to summon Rajput’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and intimidate her and take into custody his friend Samuel Miranda for interrogation. According to Dahiya, Singh did not want to file a formal complaint but wanted everything to be handled on an “informal basis”.

According to Dahiya, he first contacted Singh in the first week of February through a batch-mate. The batch-mate told Dahiya that Singh would call him soon. On February 5 Singh and his wife arrived in Mumbai on a three-day break, during which the two police officers were in constant touch.

On returning to Haryana, Singh wanted the Mumbai police to get in touch with Rajput’s manager, to let the actor know they had been in the city. Dahiya said he found it odd that Singh could not do so himself.

On February 19 and 25, Singh sent messages to Dahiya saying he wanted Chakraborty to be “handled informally”. He also wanted Mumbai police to summon Miranda and keep him in custody for a day, so he would “spill the beans” on Chakraborty.

Dahiya told Mirror: “It was clearly communicated that it would not be possible to initiate an inquiry without a written and formal complaint. The last message was on February 25, and I had called Singh and requested him to lodge a formal complaint. But he wanted to get it resolved informally. After this, he never contacted me in this regard and I was transferred from Bandra on April 1 this year. Singh never came forward with any complaints for the next four months.”
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Mumbai Zone 9 DCP Dahiya tells mid-day that the late actor's brother-in-law sent WhatsApp texts seeking personal intervention, but never registered a formal plaint
Shirish Vaktania, Vishal Singh (MID-DAY; August 5, 2020)

A day after being accused of not acting on a request from Sushant Singh Rajput's kin in February, a Mumbai top cop said the actor's family was spreading the wrong message and misleading the public. "He [the relative] wanted us to slap actor Rhea Chakraborty and keep her in custody without a formal complaint," Zone 9 Deputy Commissioner of Police Paramjit Singh Dahiya told mid-day on Tuesday.

Rajput's father Krishna Kishore Singh on Monday released WhatsApp conversations between Dahiya and his son-in-law O P Singh, who had claimed the actor's life was in danger and had asked the DCP to personally intervene. Dahiya said he became acquainted with O P Singh, a senior IPS officer posted in Haryana, through a common friend.

"In February, he sent me WhatsApp messages, asking me to call Rhea to the police station and slap her. Rhea and Sushant were in a live-in relationship then. They wanted us to take her and someone named Miranda in custody. I told him we need a written complaint to take any action, but he didn't file one." "I can't call the actor and slap her. This is against the law and O P Singh should know this... I had asked O P Singh several times to file a formal complaint, but he never did." "Why is the senior IPS officer bringing up the matter after 45 days and spreading the wrong message that we didn't act?" Dahiya asked.

'It was against the law'
In one of the messages sent to Dahiya, O P Singh alleged that "Miranda and Shruti" and Rhea are "part of the common conspiracy to destroy Sushant monetarily, mentally and physically... We need to [take] immediate and concrete action as family to save Sushant, to provide him with timely medical intervention. This is possible through your direct involvement... If we somehow keep Miranda in police custody for a day, he will spell [spill] the beans and his statement would be sufficient for us to take technical and legal action [sic]."

A senior Mumbai police officer on Tuesday said Rajput's family has deliberately leaked selective messages from the chat. "O P Singh messaged Dahiya many times, asking for help, like asking to arrange for a car, get it passed, etc. Why did O P Singh not leak that to the media?" the officer asked. Even at the time of the death, O P Singh didn't give any statement to the Mumbai police, the officer added.