Bihar police to get lookout notice against Rhea Chakraborty: DGP Gupteshwar Pandey

PATNA: Bihar police may get a lookout notice issued against actress Rhea Chakraborty, who has been absconding since Bollywood actor late Sushant Singh Rajput’s father K K Singh lodged an FIR against her in Patna, alleging that she abetted his son to commit suicide besides cheating him financially, DGP Gupteshwar Pandey said on Sunday.
“The state police would go to the extent of getting a lookout circular issued against Rhea and other accused in the case to prevent her from leaving the country.She is absconding. She has her own sources in Mumbai for helping her out there,” Pandey told TOI.
The state police headquarters has also sent Patna City SP (central) Vinay Tiwary to Mumbai to lead the four-member Patna police team already there since July 27 to investigate the case. Tiwary, an IPS officer, reached Mumbai at around 4pm. But the Mumbai civil administration quarantined the Patna SP on the grounds of Covid-19 protocols.
Sources said a woman IPS officer will also be sent to trace Rhea and liaison with Mumbai police to procure all necessary documents for carrying out the investigation in Sushant’s suicide case. The Patna police team visited Malwani police station to collect details of Sushant’s former manager Disha Salian’s mysterious suicide a few days before the actor from Patna was found hanging at his Bandra flat in Mumbai on June 14.
A senior IPS officer said the state police would have to write to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for a lookout notice against Rhea. “It is the MHA which finally issues the circular so that the intelligence bureau of immigration keeps surveillance on every exit point, especially at airports, in the country for those against whom a lookout circular is issued,” he said.
DGP Pandey said Mumbai police were yet to share even a single document with the Patna police team. “We don’t want any special favour from Mumbai police. Besides medico-legal documents like forensic, inquest and postmortem reports, we need statements of people recorded by the Mumbai police. We want to know what information they had shared with Mumbai police,” the DGP said.
A senior IPS officer said the state police headquarters would send a woman IPS officer who could liaison with her counterparts in Maharashtra police to make things easy for Patna police team members, who are conducting investigation in Mumbai in a virtually hostile environment. He said the woman officer hails from Maharashtra.
When asked, DGP Pandey told TOI that she would hopefully be sent to Mumbai soon. “However, we have not taken a final call yet,” he said.
Pandey said Tiwary was sent to Mumbai to meet senior police officers there. “I am not very sure, but they may share important medico-legal documents with him,” Pandey said.
The DGP said Tiwary will also monitor the course of investigation and give task to Patna police team in Mumbai every day.