Mumbai: Actor Sheezan Khan knew about co-star Tunisha Sharma’s anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) issues and had even advised her to seek medical help, yet got into a relationship with her and broke up against her wishes. Over 60 days after Khan (28) was arrested for abetment of suicide (Tunisha’s), Vasai’s Valiv police in their chargesheet submitted in local court on Thursday stated that the sudden break-up led to Tunisha’s emotional breakdown. She tried to reason with him, but he fought with her and caused her mental trauma, the document, running over 500 pages, said.

Tunisha (21) was found hanging in the washroom of Khan’s make-up room in a Naigaon studio on December 24, 2022. Both were lead actors in the serial Ali Baba Dastaan-e-Kabul. Khan (28) has been in Thane jail since December 31. His plea for quashing the FIR against him is likely to be heard by the Bombay high court on February 23. His bail plea is listed before the HC for March 14. His bail was rejected by the Vasai court on January 13.

The serial’s shooting began in June. In October, Tunisha confided in her mother, Vanita, about her relationship with co-star Khan. She told Vanita she visited Khan’s Malad home and his mother and sisters — both TV actors — treated her well. Vanita in her police statement (part of the chargesheet) said Khan visited their Mira Road house three to four times. Khan told Vanita he loved Tunisha. Vanita saidthat about two weeks before the suicide, Tunisha was upset and crying, and told her Khan had broken up. Vanita said she called Khan’s mother, who said she too was upset.

The chargesheet contains a statement of the doctor who treated Tunisha in a Kandivli hospital where she went after a panic attack on December 16. Her physical and mental health was poor, the doctortold Vanita. Tunisha was discharged the same evening but kept crying, asking Vanita to speak to Khan. On December 23, Vanita met Khan, who told her and also Tunisha he will not reconsider getting back.

The chargesheet includes statements of Tunisha’s costars, a paper chit scribbled by Tunisha, and CCTV footage showing Khan leaving his room and Tunisha following him minutes before her death by suicide. It also contains WhatsApp chats obtained from Tunisha’s phone showing the two in a relationship and their break-up (Tunisha continued to message him after the break-up, but Khan did not respond) and deleted chats of Khan in which he chatted with other women.

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Police have filed a chargesheet in the case related to the alleged suicide of actor Tunisha Sharma in a court in Palghar district of Maharashtra, an official said. Her co-actor and ex-boyfriend Sheezan Khan (28) was arrested for alleged abetment of suicide. Valiv (a place in Palghar district near Mumbai) police filed the chargesheet in the Vasai sessions court on Thursday, the local police official said, without disclosing further details. It contains call details, chats and other communications exchanged between Sharma and Khan, he said.

Sharma (21) was found hanging in the washroom of Khan’s makeup room on December 24 last year. The incident took place on the set of a TV serial near Valiv. Khan is currently in judicial custody. Sharma and Khan, who were in a relationship but later parted ways, were co-stars in the TV show Ali Baba Dastaan-e-Kabul.