As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continues its investigations into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a new report states that Siddharth Pithani took down the body on the direction of the late actor’s brother-in-law OP Singh.

According to a report on Times Now, Siddharth claimed that when he found the late actor hanging from the fan, it was in-fact OP Singh who directed Meetu and told him to get SSR’s body down to try to ‘save’ him. He alleged that in a bid to try to see if he was still alive and could be saved, he brought the actor’s mortal remains down.

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In another allegation, reports claim that Pithani addressed the deleted data and records on Rajput’s electronic devices. He alleged that the actor told him to delete old videos and other data following the untimely demise of former manager Disha Salian.

Reports state that the actor was ‘disturbed’ after Salian’s passing and asked Pithani to keep him updated about the death. Sushant was also said to be upset about his name being linked to Salian’s death following which, he asked his flatmate to delete all the data.

Besides Pithani, cook Neeraj Singh, staff member Keshav Bachne have been grilled by the CBI in this past week. Reports claim that the federal agency has recorded the statement of about 16 people in connection with the case.

Meanwhile, Rhea Chakraborty, the main accused in this case has reportedly been called in for questioning for the third time today.

Sushant’s father Krishna Kishore Singh recently made a sensational allegation that Rhea had administered poison to kill his son, and demanded her arrest.

Earlier, Sushant’s kin have blamed the Chakraborty family for his death and allegedly swindling Rs 15 crore from his bank account, but Rhea has denied all the accusations.

The CBI registered a case against Rhea, her brother Showik, her father Indrajit, her mother Sandhya, Sushant’s ex-manager Shruti Modi, his house manager Samuel Miranda and unknown others after the case was transferred from the Bihar Police who had registered the first FIR in the case on July 25 on a complaint by Sushant’s father.