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BOMBAY MC ORDERS CBI
PROBE INTO ACTOR JIAH
KHAN'S DEATH CASE
uJiah Khan was found hanging in her .Juhu
fiat ort .hine 3, 2013
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ItT Correspondent
MUMBßJ:The Eombay high court onThursday
transferred actor Jiah Khan death case for
fuiter investigatlons to the CentralBurcau
of Investigation (Cffl) and dlrected the central agency to find out if it was a suicidal
death or homicidal one.
Though the divisionbench of Justice VM
Kanade and Justice 1'!) Kode didnotnoteany
fault with the investlgation carried out by
Juhu police, the judges thouglit itnecessary
to transfer the case to the central agency in
order to probe to unearth the truth
if Ute
death was suicidal, as claimed by Ute police
-
or homicidal one, as suspected by the mother
of Ute deceased actor, Rabbiya Khan.
"We do not wish to find faults with the
investigation carried out so far," the judg-
said, adding, "However, na useful purpose will be served by either asking some
es
other local police officer or even a Special
Investigation Team (SIT) comprised of
local police officers to carry out further
investigation."
The court was hearing a petition filed by
Rabbiya Khan urging Ute Bombay hlgh court
to direct the CBI to conduct investigation
into the suspicious death of her daughter,
suspecting that her daughter died homicidal death.
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RAWnomineesbutalsoof En
opened the issue.
New Delhi: The controversy
forcement Directorate in view
of the fact that the cause of
these circumstances, an SIT
Inquiry should be set up on
death could have something to
do with her threat of disclo
your direction."
sure of the money laundering
In the fit scam, involving the
mysterious circumstances in
her room at a five-stat hotel in
son-indawofapowerifilpolith
South Delhi on January
cal figure of the UPA," the let
Swamy has alleged in his let
tersaid.
tertothePMthattheF'lRregis-
over Sunanda Pushkar's death
received
fresh
impetus
on
Thursday as senior RIP leader
Subramaniazn Swamy shot
off a letter to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi seeking a 081
probe into the matter Swainy
said he has,
in fact, asked the
PM to castitute a special in
vestigation team (SrI) which
should include members of
NEW TARGfl Swamy
the luteffigence Bureau and
EnforcementDhtctorate.
'1 urge youth set up an SIT
underdfllwlthnotonlylBand
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Pushkar was found dead in
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It further said an affidavit
ed In the Central Adminis
tered In the matter has not yet
beenacteduponandafinalre-
trative Tribunal (CAT) by Dr
port has yet to be filed despite
thepassageof so muchtlme.
Sudhir Gupta
has
fully
re
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HG cites 'lacuna' in Jiah'
probe, gives case to CBJ
Mumbal:
Thirteen months
after actress Jiah Khan was
:d:m:;
urt
on
Thursday
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onlere(I
the city police to hand the
They also said the SIT probing the
case had officers who were part
A division bench of Just Ic
of the police probe earlier
es VM Kanade and PD
ordered the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) to take
over the probe from a special
investigationteam (SIT),
on a
plea ified by Jiah's motherRa
bench said, adding that they
were not expressing any opin
ly by the petitioner was at
variance with that of the po-
ion on the merits of the probe
done by the Mumbal police.
lice, suggesting there was a
biaKhan last October seekIng
probe by the central agency
"Thecase ishandedoverto
CS! for further investigaticcn
and to assess whether ,Jiah
Khan committed suicide or
was murdered," the division
Judges said the forensic opinion
obtained by Jiahs mother was at
variance with that of the police.
The
"lacuna' in the probe.
directed
Moreover, the SIT constitua
govern
ted following court directives
mentand police to provide all
nëde[sary support to the CS!
in Investigating the case.
comprised officers who were
part of the earlier team which
the
-
court also
Maharashtra
The judges said the foren
sic opinion obtained private
had probed the police case and
reached the conclusion that
Jiah's death was a suicide.
ANS
Cong open to CBI
probe
in MPPEB
Scam: On the counter-
offensive after repeated charges of corruption made against him
and his family by the
opposition Congress,
MP CM $hivraj Singh
Chouhan on Thursday
said not only the MP
Professional Examination Board appointments made during
the BJP rule, but irreg-
ularities of Congress
government led by
Digvijaya Singh would
also be probed.
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'Bombay HC transfers Jiab
death investigation to CBI.
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
agency like the CR1
MUMBAI, JULY 3
cannot saythat they
don't have
MOREthan a year
after the
infra
structure and per
deathof 25-year-old actorJiah
sonnel.
Khan,
crime iscommitted,
Bombay
the
Court on
High
Thursday trans
it
is
an
When
a
offence
were injuly marks
dependent agency like the
on her daughter's
CBI should
bodythatwerenot
sufficiently
ex
Gonsalves told
agencyhadjust 11 officers and
mortem report.
the court had
On
June
ferred the probe in cases of
2013, Jiah, aUS na
custddial deaths to the CBI.
"If CR! has the audacity of
makingsuch asubmission that
reau of Investigation (CR!).
state toprotectciti
Jiah was found
zens," a bench of
hanging in her
committed suicide
in her Juhu resi
pressed its displeasure over
Justices
V
M
Juhu residence
dence by hanging
and
the central agencythat asked
Kanade and
P D
herself, Four days
where the
it
not to transfer the case to it,
Kode observed,
While the
citing shortage of manpower
and
logistics,
tional,
allegedly
later, her sister Kavita founda
Mumbai police
had chargdsheeted
six-page latter allegedly writ
ship
CR!has diffi
Pancholi and Zarina Wahab,
abortion
'or
other support, a request
Thecourt thencited the excials who
c6untofhertroubledrelation
culties like logistical support
citizens are sup-
posed to go," the court said.
ampleoftwoUSconsu!ateoffi-
choli, son of actors Aditya
the CR1.... ifthe
officers, orie wonders
ten by the actor giving an ac
formerboyfriendSooraj Pan
andan
we don't have infrastructure
Khan's
guished by the stand taken by
"We are surprised
recently trans
3,
against society and
The court, however, e
Rebecca
the court the
plained in the post
ferred the investigation into
her death to the Central Ru
it is the duty of the
probe the case.
CBJ's counsel
for abetting her suicide,
with
Sooraj
and
an
thatshe underwent.
attended the court
hearings in the case. "Uniortunately we cannot direct the
her
Additional public prose
FBI. But just see the kind of
mother Rabya Khan alleged
cutor Purnima Kantharia told
concern shown by the US gov-
should havebeen made to the
her
daughter's death was
the court that the police had
ernmentoverthedeathofacit-
court to direct the state to pro
homicidal and ñrged the court
examined the case from all an
izen.
'vide support. Ultimately the
to transfer the case to an inde
gles including that of homi
we are there to help, but
pendentagency.
cide,buthadfoundnothing.
steadtheCBlsayswehaveno
interest
of the citizen is
bf
paramount importance. An
-
Rabya had claimed there
The court felt that an in
The CBI should say that
in-
officers," Justice ICanade said,
BADAUN DOUBLE RAPEMURDER
CBI questions
prime eyewitness
for over 10 hours
PRImA CHAflERJEE
NEWDELflI,flJLy3
NAJRU, NEIGHBOUR
THE prime eyewitness in the
Badaun double rape-murder case,
alias Najru, was taken by
the CR! for questioningat 1.3Opmon
Babu Ram
Thursday.
The questioning was on at the
timeofgoingtopressatll.3oprn
Sources confirmed that Najru's
polygraph test was completed during
thisperiodalongwiththequestiou
ing. CR! officials did not give the
reason for his sustained questioning
on Thursday night.
Najru, a neighbour of the two
cousins, was a close associate of the
family and according to the family
members he had been "like an un
cle" to the girls. He was the eyewit
ness mentioned by the cousins' fa
thers in the FIR
filed at
the Katra
Sadatganj police chowki in Usait in
Badaun.
Najru had claimed to have seen
the youngest
of the three accused
brothers dragging the girls on May
27 evening, when he had gone to
check his fields. There were 4-5 oth
ers whom he could not identify in
the dark, He had claimed when
he
the girls, the ac
threatened him with a gun,
had tried to save
cused
forcing him to flee, The accused in
his statement
had said
of the two cousins, had
claimed to have seen the
youngest of the three
accused brothers dragging
the girls on May27 evening,
when he had gone to check
his fields. There were 4-5
-
others whom he could not
identify in the dark
that Najru then
took the girls
with
him.
In the CBI enquiries last week,
that Najru and the
cousins' real uncle had received Rs 1
lath each in their grameenbank acit
also emerged
in Badaun from the cousins'
fathers out of the compensation
counts
money received by different quar
ters. The cousins' fathers had admit
ted to giving the eyewitnesses this
money, explaining that since they
were family, and could not do their
farmingworksincetheywerehelping
them in
the case, it was natural for
them to help them,
Last week, family
members had
handed over a broken mobile
phone, which reportedly belonged
to the elder cousin. Although vilalso
had gone
lagers and eyewitness had claimed
to meet the elder cousin, who was
seeing the mobile on the body of the
his friend. He said he was returning
the girl and her sister, they ran
into Najru after which there was a
elder cousin,
he
with
scuffle between the two. He claimed
it soon went missing.
mobile was later recovered
from the maternal uncle of
one of
the cousins.
The
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VIDHUJAIN MURDER CASE
Order CBI probe,
CM urges Centre.
TRIBUNE NEws
SERWcE
CHANDIGARU, JIJLY3
Chief
Minister
Parkash
Singh Bath! today
Union
Home
asked
Minister
npth Singh to order a CBI
inquiry into the murder case
of 11-year-o!d Vidhu .Jain of
SDespite the best efforts,
the state police have
failed to make any
breakthrough in the case.
I
request you (Home
Minister) to entrust the
investitiontothecßl
Pailcash
Sinfl Bada!,
CHIEF MINISTER
Malerkotla, who was burnt t&
death in
September 2013.
In a !etter to Rajnath Singh,
the Chief Minister
him
that
despite
informed
sonally and
issue
others to entrust
necessary
the investi-
gation to the CRI for a quick
the best
dispensation ofjustice to the
efForts the state police had
aggrieved fainilç' the !etter
to make any break
reads. The state government
through in the case. 'Since
had earlier urged the MELAtO
failed
the
matter is of urgent
sensitive
and
hand over the case to the CBI
nature, I request
on January 3, but failed to get
you to look into the case per
any response.
BombayHC
transfers Jiah
Khan suicide
case to CBI
TRIBUNE NEws SERVICE
MUMBA!, JULY
The
Bombay
High
Court
today transferred the investigallon into
the alleged suicide
by actor Jiah Khan to the Central
Bureau of Investigation.
Jiah was found dead at her
home
suburban
in
Juhu in
June last year. Acting on the
basis of a letter written by
he; the police arrested actor
Suraj Pancholi with whom
she was in a relationship.
Jiah Khan
Pancholi
is
the
son
of
actors Aditya Pancholi and
Zarina Wahab.
Suraj
is at
present out on bail. Jiah's
mother, Rabiya, moved the
Bombay
High
Court
in
October last year seeking a
CBI investigation.
In
plea,
Rabiya
that her
daughter
her
alleged
was murdered and that she
had not committed suicide
as
claimed by
the police.
Jiah had acted in a few films
like
Nishabd
and Ghajini
her short career.
in
HC
transfers
Jiah Khan
case to CBI
Swamy seeks CBI probe
Special Correspondent
JIAHDEATH
Bombay HG hands over case to CBI
TN RAGHUNATI1A
Bombay High
The
Thursday handed over
Court on
the
circumstances leading to Jiah
Ichan's death to the CBI. after
holding that the contrasting
forensic opinions
obtained by
the Mumbai police and private
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ducted
earlier by a special
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transfer of the investigations in
the Jiah IChan case from the 5i'r
of
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Investigation Team (SIT).
the Mumbai police to the
CBI, while hearing a petition
filed by actress mother Rabia
Khan, who has alleged that Jiah
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Kanade and PD Kode ordered
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AHCbenchofJusticesVM
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iy by the deceased Bollywood
actresi mother
had thrown up
a suggestion that there could be
'lacuna" in the probe con
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further investigations frito the
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MUMBAI
,
had not committed suicide,
but had been murdered.
CBI
"The case is handed over to
for further investigation to
assess whether Jiah Ichan corna
mined suicide or was mur-
dered,' the judges said.
Arjun scientisiP
.probed by CBI
:
PRAMOD KUMAR
ksearch
NEWDELHI,JIJLY3
Dcv cl o p m e n t
Organisation
(DRDO)
for the Inclian Army. lt
The
mg
is investigat
graftallegations
CDI
against a senior seien
tist associated with the
Vehicic
Combat
Research
and
Development
Establishment (CVRDE
of the mm
of defence (MoD).
aiu
features a 120-mm main
rilled gun, one 7.62 mm
coaxial machine gun
and a 12.7 mn machine
gun.
Theagencyrecenily
registered a prelimi
Chennal)
nary enquiry
istr
the ailegation
to probe
against
-
Scanner
The seientist under the
was part of a
the scientist.
'The agency will soon
project on the produc
tion of Indias
main
seek ciarifications [rom
the seientist as weil as
tank,
Arjun,
sources saicl.
Sources in the agency
said, "Initial investiga
battle
the suspected firm. The
will also seek
ciarifications [rom certain senior officials ot'
agency
by the CBI have
that the seien
allcgedly took a
the MoD," sources said.
"If
the
CBI
finds
incrirninating evidence
bribe from a private
firm for giving a satis
during the inquiry, it
would register a regu-
report to a com
lar case into the matter.
Without registering a
tions
revealecj
tist
factory
pany which was devel
oping
assembly forged
steel track links for the
batile tank Arjun dur
ing
was
orders
the
case,
not have
does
the power to cail anybody to the CBI head-
suspected
firm
given
supply
quarters for recording
the statement. If the
agcncy deeides to con-
by the Defence
Factory for
vert the Pil into a regu
lar case, only then can
inspection
Ordnance
developing
steel track
for the
battle
tank, they said. Arjun
is a third-generation
main battie tank devel
oped by the Defence
links
agency
in
an
2012."
The
regular
the CBI send summons
to the people. At this
point of Urne, the CDI
cnn only seek ciarifica[rom
tions
them,"
sources said.
JIAH PROBE
HANDED
OVERTOCW
MumbaL
The Bombay
hlgh court Thursday
handed over to the CBI
the probe into
Bollywood actress Jiah
Khan's death, five
months after the
Mumbai police conclud
cd it was a case of sui
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Noting that they want
cd the truth to emerge, a
division beneh of
Justices V.M. Kanade
aM RD. Kode directed
dde and charged her
live-in partner Suraj
Pancholi with abetting
it. The 25-year-old
the CBI to take over the
case froni the Special
Investigation Team
(SIT) of the Murnbai
police immediately and
British-American
carry out further probe.
actress was found hang
mg from a ceiling fan at
her Juhu home on June
3 last year.
The order was passed
on a petition filed by
Jiah's mother Jtabiya
Khan.
PTI
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TCBI may probe Kerala child trafficking
- - - VR JAYARAJ" KOCHI
of a CBI probe
Prospects
the
into
incident of
trafficking of hundreds of chil
controversial
dren from North Indian States to
orphanages in Kerala run by
Muslim
organisations
\\t tF
got
brighter on Wednesday with
theagencyinformingtheKerala
High Court of its readiness to
Government was anxious
AG whether it was not a matter
of satisfaction for
ready to take over the probe.
However, Dandapani said
he did not want to express an
opinion at this stage The court,
which
Counsel for the CR! told a
headed
bench ofthe High Court
by Chief Justice Ma*ila
Chellur that the Kerala Police
mightfIcedifiucullies'mprobing
suchacaseinwhichmoreStates
were involved. The court was
also told that the CR! had a spe
cial cell functioning at
itthead
reminded
the
Government that it was viewin
take up the case. The court had
on June 19 asked the CBI if it
could probe the incident.
division
the State
Government that the CBI was
nr
C
ut
suchaninvestigation.ltaskedthe
he matter quite seriously, aske
the AG about details of the case
including the number ofpeople
quarters to handle such cases.
The division bench had
earlier proposed a CBI probe
pointing out that the State
police might not be able to
probetheincidentbecauseofits
inter-State nature. The
from Jharkhand, Bihar and West
Bengal without proper docu
ments to orphanages run by
arrested so k. The AG submitted in court the probe
Muslim
managements in
Kozhikode and Malappuram
Branch in a sealed envelope.
The
division
bench
districtsThepolicehaddetained
appointed
agency
these children at Palakkad when
said that it was ready to take
they were being brought on
May24 and had registered a case
for human traflickirig.
over the probe once the court
gave the necessary instructions,
The incident is currentlybeing
probedby the Crime Branch of
the Kerala
Police.
The case pertains to the traf
ficking of nearly 600 children
After
the
CM counsel
informed it ofthe agency's will
ingness to take up the case, the
court
asked
General K!'
State
Advocate
Dandapani if the
progress report of the Crime
lawyer Devan
Itamachandran as amicus curlae to help it in the case. Since the
beginning of the case, based on
two petitions seeking compre
hensive probe into the incident,
the court has been expressing
serious
doubts
about the State
Government's sincerity
with
regard to the investigation.
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JiahKhan case to CBI
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