Actor Rhea Chakraborty, who had moved out of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s house in Bandra just a week before his mysterious death by suicide, suffered a double whammy on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court rejected her plea for transfer of the Patna FIR to Mumbai and indirectly brought her under the probe radar from all angles of the case, including allegations of financial misappropriation levelled by Rajput’s father K K Singh.

At the same time, it held that the CBI taking over the Patna FIR was valid and that the central agency did not require Maharashtra’s consent to undertake investigation into the death within the jurisdiction of the state. The order also empowers the CBI to take over investigation into a new case, if one is registered by Mumbai police, without having to require the Maharashtra government’s consent.

Alarmed by registration of an FIR by Patna police, Chakraborty had moved the SC invoking Section 406 of the CrPC — which empowers the SC to effect inter-state transfer of cases in the interest of justice — for its transfer to Mumbai police, pleading that only the Mumbai police had jurisdiction over the incident which happened in the city.
Examining the scope of the SC’s powers under Section 406, Justice Hrishikesh Roy said, “The scope of exercise of this power is for securing the ends of justice. The precedents suggest that transfer plea under Section 406 CrPC were granted in cases where the court believed that the trial may be prejudiced and fair and impartial proceedings cannot be carried on, if the trial continues. Having considered the contour of the power under section 406 CrPC, it must be concluded that only cases and appeals (not investigation) can be transferred.” Justice Roy also cited the SC’s 1978 judgment in Ram Chander Singh Sagar case.
Bihar DGP: Beyond Rhea ‘haisiyat’ to comment on Nitish
Within minutes of the SC endorsing CBI inquiry into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s alleged suicide case, Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey courted controversy on Wednesday saying Rhea Chakraborty does not have the “stature” to comment on CM Nitish Kumar, reports Debashish Karmakar. “ Rhea Chakraborty ki ye haisiyat nahi hai ki woh Bihar ke mukhyamantri par tippani kare,” Pandey said.