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Delhi Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena says government cannot be run from jail, hints at President's Rule in the capital ////// In a dangerous incident, the wings of two planes grazed while taxiing on the runway at Kolkata airport, all passengers were safe but DGCA ordered an inquiry and the pilots were derostered
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Supreme Court Hands The SSR Death Probe To The CBI

By Linus Garg
First publised on 2020-08-20 11:24:05

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Sunil Garodia Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.

With the Centre, Bihar and Sushant Singh Rajput's family petitioning it to order a CBI inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of the popular actor, and with a number of rumours and conspiracy theories floating about, perhaps the Supreme Court did the right thing in handing over the case to the CBI. Rajput's death in the prime of his life has raised several questions. In the main, it has forced society to look afresh at people facing mental health issues while opening a can of worms about nepotism in the Hindi film industry that has sucked in several big names. It has also put the spotlight on Rhea Chakraborty, who was the dead actor's companion in his last days, and the way she handled the situation in the last few months when the actor was alive. Investigators are also focusing on whether she had conspired with her brother to cause financial stress to Rajput. In fact, it was Chakraborty's petition to seek a transfer of an FIR filed against her in Patna to Mumbai that triggered the Supreme Court action in the main.

Although the court has given a clean chit to the Mumbai police for the manner in which it was conducting the probe, the transfer of the case to the CBI is likely to demoralize the force. The very fact that the court felt that the case needed a bias-free probe means that it thought that the Mumbai police would not conduct an unbiased investigation. But the CBI's past record in handling such cases does not inspire much confidence. Further, since it will be taking over the probe very late and will largely depend on the evidence collected by the Mumbai Police, the damage, if any, would have been done by now. The CBI will have to probe all angles thoroughly and will have to expose the conspiracy if any, that troubled the actor so much that he ended up taking his own life. On the other hand, it also needs to clear such people whose reputation is being unnecessarily shredded in public if they are not involved.