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Sushant Singh Rajput: Suicide, Not Murder

By Linus Garg
First publised on 2020-10-03 20:24:00

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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.

A team from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), tasked with studying the autopsy report of Sushant Sigh Rajput submitted by a Mumbai hospital and looking into other aspects of his death, has reportedly submitted its findings to the CBI. The medico-legal opinion in the report rules out the murder angle. The report has also upheld the autopsy conducted by the Mumbai hospital and confirmed that death was due to "asphyxia due to hanging" and that murder is ruled out as there were no injuries on the body. There was no evidence of struggle too. The CBI is now going to investigate the matter for 'abetment to suicide' which is as it should be. It should be known whether Rajput ended his life as he could not bear it any more or whether some pushed him to it.

Hopefully, this will bring all wild speculations floating around to an end. Rajput's family had alleged that he was poisoned. Their family lawyer Vikas Singh had also added a twist in the narrative when he had 'disclosed' a few days ago that a member of the AIIMS panel had informed him that Rajput was strangled. Singh should be questioned by the CBI about the source of his information and strict action must be taken against him as per law if he fabricated the information. Many people have tried to get their two minutes of fame by making wild allegations on national television without realizing the disservice they are doing to the dead man by misleading the investigations.

Hopefully, too, the circus which a section of the television media turned Rajput's death into will also come to an end. By creating amazing, but largely speculative, stories around Rajput's death, this section of the media pandered to TRPs like never before. In the process, they threw professionalism, journalistic ethics and objectivity out of the window and conducted a media trial which has already decided that Rhea Chakraborty and her brother killed Rajput. One hopes that the Supreme Court will take suo motu cognizance of the excesses of this section of the media and put a stop to what is going on in the name of journalism.