Jiah Khan suicide case update: Charges framed against Sooraj Pancholi by Sessions Court

A sessions court in Mumbai today framed charges against actor Sooraj Pancholi in the Jiah Khan murder case. Sooraj has been charged with ‘abetment to suicide’ for the death of actress Jiah Khan in 2013. The actor has been charged under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code to which Sooraj has pleaded not guilty. (Also Read: Hotness Alert: Sooraj Pancholi gives us body goals for 2018. View Pics)

“Sooraj pleaded innocence and the examination of witnesses will start from February 14,” his lawyer Prashant Patil said.

In October 2013, Rabiya Khan had moved to the Bombay High Court alleging that her daughter had been murdered and sought a CBI probe, which was granted.

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According to the chargesheet, Jiah Khan was found hanging at her residence on June 3, 2013 by her mother Rabiya. She had left the house of Sooraj Pancholi, where she had been staying for the last two days, in the morning the same day, it said.

According to the CBI, son of actor Aditya Pancholi and actress Zarina Wahab, Sooraj Pancholi had hidden facts and fabricated information during questioning. The actor even refused to undergo polygraph or brain-mapping tests which the CBI wanted to conduct to get to the bottom of his alleged role in the incident.

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Jiah had left behind a letter which the Mumbai Police and the CBI used in their investigation. The letter stated Jiah’s intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and physical torture allegedly at the hands of Sooraj Pancholi which led her to commit suicide.

Inputs from IANS