Rhea Chakraborty. Pic/Bipin Kokate
THE TIMES OF INDIA (October 13, 2020)

Mumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty on Monday wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking action against her neighbour, Dimple Thawani, for allegedly “misleading the probe” into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.

While Rhea had maintained that she last saw Rajput on June 8, Thawani had allegedly claimed that the couple was seen together on June 13. Rajput was found dead in his Bandra flat on June 14.

In a statement to the CBI on Sunday, Thawani had said that she never saw Rajput and Rhea together on June 13, but had heard someone saying this.

Rhea said the allegation that Rajput had dropped her in his car at her Santacruz residence on June 13, was false. In her letter to the CBI’s special investigation team, she said that Thawani had made “patently false and bogus allegations” against her knowing them to be “false, to mislead the investigation”. “I request you to take cognizance of the same and initiate appropriate action according to law,” the letter stated.

Rhea said she was also forwarding a recording of the claims made by Thawani to a television news channel..

Rhea said a prima facie case under IPC sections 211 (false charge of offence made with intent to injure) and 203 (giving false information respecting an offence committed) was made out against Thawani. She added that one of the charges attracts a minimum sentence of seven years in jail.

Rhea was granted bail last week, almost a month after the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested her in a drugs case reated to Rajput’s death.
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Actor says woman gave false information to TV channel with intention of misleading the probe
Faizan Khan (MID-DAY; October 13, 2020)

Rhea Chakraborty has filed a written complaint with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against one of her neighbours, for allegedly giving false information to a national news channel. The neighbour has told the TV channel that a person told her he allegedly saw Chakraborty with Sushant Singh Rajput a day before the actor’s death.

The letter has been written to CBI SP Nupur Sharma who is part of SIT and investigating all aspects related to the Rajput death case.”A written complaint has been filed against Ms Dimple Thawani for giving false and bogus news against Rhea Chakraborty,” said Chakraborty’s lawyer, advocate Satish Maneshinde.

‘Will Reveal Others’
“We will be forwarding a list to CBI, of people who made fake and false claims on TV and electronic media, including showing mobile recordings and fake stories on the SSR case with particular reference to Rhea Chakraborty. We will request CBI to initiate legal proceedings against them for misleading the investigations,” he added.

In the written complaint, Chakraborty has stated, “I was interrogated by CBI for more than five days in connection with the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. During the investigation several media channels carried false and bogus stories without any material to substantiate these patently false and fabricated claims in order to achieve their own ends. One such person, Mrs Dimple Thawani, made patently false and bogus allegations against me knowing them to be false, to mislead the investigation in the above case. The allegation was that the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput had dropped me to my residence in his car on June 13, 2020, which is utterly false.”

“The conduct makes out a prima facie case punishable under Sections 203 and 211 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and/or an attempt to commit an offence under Sections 203 and 211 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, one of which is punishable with imprisonment for a minimum of seven years. The said offences are serious and the allegations were made on a TV channel without any basis. I am forwarding a recording of the same, I would therefore request you to take cognizance of the same and initiate appropriate action according to law,” she added.

CBI Warns Thawani
“Somebody saw him (Sushant) dropping Rhea Chakraborty at around 6 pm or 6:30 pm on June 13, 2020. The person had told me long before in June even before the case had been handed to CBI, even before Rhea had said anything. He told me casually that he saw Sushant dropping Rhea on June 13 and there was no driver. But I haven’t seen anything. I was just informed by that person,” Thawani told the TV channel in a telephonic conversation.

However, according to sources, when the CBI went to record her statement on Sunday, Thawani claimed she did not say anything like the above to the TV Channel. The agency has warned her against making any such claim which is related to the case and not true.