Mumbai: Narrating events leading to the moment she found her daughter, actor Jiah Khan (25), dead in their Juhu home and moments after, Rabiya Khan told the special CBI court on Thursday that when she screamed out saying that she had repeatedly told her eldest child to stay away from her boyfriend, actor Sooraj Pancholi, her friend, actor Anju Mahendru told her to not take his name. “His father (actor Aditya Pancholi) is connected to underworld and has political clout and is very dangerous. They will do something to you,” Rabiya quoted Mahendroo as warning her.

On the second day of her examination in chief by special public prosecutor Manoj Chaladan, Rabiya said this happened moments after Aditya Pancholi walked into the house, fell at her feet, apologized and said, “Sorry, my son has ruined his life…career…Jiah was a child.”

Rabiya iterated that Jiah had not died by suicide but was murdered. “Both agencies (CBI and city police) never collected any legal evidence to prove it was a case of suicide. I believe it is a murder and the accused is responsible for killing my daughter,” she submitted in her deposition.

Rabiya broke down in court multiple times. She said that a couple of hours before she found Jiah dead, she had overheard a phone conversation where Sooraj was shouting at her.

During the hearing, Rabiya identified clothes Jiah wore when she found her body, and the muslin dupatta used in the alleged suicide. She also alleged that her two daughters had found a letter left by Jiah and “discovered all the grievance and pain that Jiah had expressed which was directly pointing to Sooraj.”

“We saw on the screen of the phone (Jiah’s) there were many text messages and many missed phone calls… We read messages on the screen and it was filled with anger with abusive language. . ” she said.

Pancholi’s lawyer is likely to cross-examine Rabiya on Monday.

On June 3, 2013, Jiah was found hanging in her Juhu flat, after which Sooraj was arrested and charged with abet-ment. He was later given bail.

During deposition before special judge A S Sayyad, Rabiya iterated alleged instances where she suspected Jiah was being abused in the relationship and Sooraj was allegedly “manipulative”. She spoke about frequents fights between Jiah and Sooraj, Aditya Pancholi’s alleged disapproval of the relationship and how Sooraj’s mentor Salman Khan did not have any objection to the relationship. Rabiya also submitted that in May, Sooraj came to her and told her how he wanted space from a “depressed” Jiah as he was starting work soon. She denied that Jiah was depressed.