Shift CBI FIR in Sushant case to Mumbai cops, Maha tells SC

NEW DELHI: Who will probe mysterious suicidal death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput became a triangular war in

the Supreme Court

between Mumbai police on one side and Bihar and CBI on the other as the Maharashtra told the SC that CBI had no jurisdiction to probe the incident as the state has not given consent for investigation by the central agency.


Since the incident has happened in Mumbai, the CBI FIR should be treated as a 'Zero FIR' and transferred to Mumbai police, which is capable of doing a professional investigation into the case, said the affidavit filed on behalf of Mumbai police by an inspector of

Bandra

police station.

The inspector, Bhushan Mhadev Belnekar, said Maharashtra, and not Bihar, was the state competent to give consent under Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act for CBI investigation into an incident that has taken place in Mumbai.

Belnekar said "Bihar government's decision to transfer probe into Patna FIR bristles with malafide as

Bihar police

had no jurisdiction to lodge FIR on an incident that has taken place in Mumbai and second, Bihar was not the state competent to recommend CBI probe under DSPE Act."

He said Bihar police was hesitating to register FIR but it was done under pressure from Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. "It is submitted that registration of FIR at Rajiv Nagar police station in Patna, was politically motivated and due to extraneous reasons." The police inspector said registration of FIR in Bihar for an incident in Mumbai violated the federal structure of the country and would lead to a chaotic situation if other states start following this pattern.

Turning attention to Rajput's father, the police inspector said he ought to have approached

the Mumbai police

for registration of an FIR rather than lodging it at Patna, where the police was without jurisdiction. "Such practice ought to be deprecated as it would encourage anyone to register FIR at any place in any state, which would lead to disastrous consequences," he said