Sushant Singh Rajput case live: Bihar Police record statement of Sushant's friend Pithani

Days after a Bihar police team reached Mumbai to probe the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case, a turf battle has broken out between law enforcement officers from Bihar and Maharashtra. An FIR has been registered in Patna on a complaint filed by Rajput’s father K K Singh against actor Rhea Chakraborty. Stay here for all live updates

13:16 (IST) Aug 03

If Mumbai Police is already investigating the case, so anyone not related to Maharashtra govt and not related to the case should not comment on it as Mumbai Police is capable of conducting the probe on its own.

Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena Leader

13:15 (IST) Aug 03

Mumbai Police investigation is progressing in the right direction, in a professional manner.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Sushant Singh Rajput Case

13:08 (IST) Aug 03

Patna City SP Vinay Tiwari quarantined after he reached Mumbai to supervise the probe being conducted by Bihar Police into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput; his hand stamped indicating isolation period till August 15: Police

12:45 (IST) Aug 03

Leader of opposition in the assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav supported Babloo's demand for a CBI probe and asked why the 'double engine' government was making delay in handing over the Sushant case to the CBI.

12:42 (IST) Aug 03

Patna: Issues related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput case raised in Bihar assembly here on Monday. BJP MLA and Sushant's first cousin Neeraj Singh Babloo demanded a CBI probe into alleged 'murder' of Sushant case in the assembly.

12:27 (IST) Aug 03

4 Bihar Police officers are already in Mumbai, they also went there on a flight but were not quarantined. We sent an IPS officer to speed up the probe but he was quarantined when he started his investigation: Bihar Minister Sanjay Jha

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12:27 (IST) Aug 03

Mumbai Police investigation is progressing in the right direction, in a professional manner: Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh

12:25 (IST) Aug 03

The view that the Sushant case deserved a deeper, more independent probe continued to find takers, especially among politicians and the bureaucracy in Bihar. Union minister R K Singh said, “Mumbai police did precious little after the incident. They didn’t lodge a formal FIR even after interrogation of a number of suspects.”

12:24 (IST) Aug 03

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray met chief secretary Sanjay Kumar, CP Parambir Singh and DGP Subodh Jaiswal on Sunday evening to review the broad contours of the case. “He just wanted to take a review of the investigation and technicalities as one more state (Bihar) is also involved in the probe,” said an official.

12:24 (IST) Aug 03

Bihar Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey on Sunday alleged that Tiwari was "forcibly quarantined" by civic authorities in Mumbai.

12:24 (IST) Aug 03

Tiwari arrived in Mumbai on Sunday and was quarantined by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities late in the night for 14 days at the State Reserve Police Force quarter in suburban Goregaon, a police official said. His hand was also stamped showing the quarantine period till August 15.

12:24 (IST) Aug 03

With the Bihar cops’ attempt to access documents linked to the alleged suicide of Sushant’s manager Disha Salian (28) stonewalled, the Bihar government sent Patna city SP Vinay Tiwary to Mumbai to “remove obstacles”.

12:24 (IST) Aug 03

Days after a Bihar police team reached Mumbai to probe the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case, a turf battle has broken out between law enforcement officers from the two regions, with even ministers weighing in to control the investigation.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh said the Bihar team had exceeded their brief: the law requires an offence to be probed by police and courts within whose jurisdiction it has been committed.