Mumbai: Eight years after the alleged suicide of actor Jiah Khan, the case came up for hearing for the first time before a special CBI court on Tuesday. The case was recently transferred from the sessions court to the CBI court. The court has directed the prosecution and defence to argue their applications again.

Among them is a plea moved by CBI seeking to conduct further investigations. In a plea to the court conducting the trial under charges of abetment of suicide against actor Sooraj Pancholi, CBI had said it wanted to send the dupatta used in the incident for analysis to the forensic laboratory, Chandigarh. It sought permission to send phones of Jiah and Sooraj to the forensic unit, FBI, US, to recover the messages.

In 2018, the sessions court had framed charges against Pancholi for allegedly abetting the suicide of his girlfriend. Pancholi had pleaded not guilty, after which the trial commenced. The matter will come up on August 21.