CBI to Question Rhea Chakraborty Regarding Embezzlement of Funds
Rhea Chakraborty was quizzed by the CBI for over 10 hours yesterday.
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Actor Rhea Chakraborty, who was questioned by the CBI yesterday for over 10 hours in connection with the Sushant Singh Rajput case, is being questioned again today. Chakraborty has arrived at the DRDO guest house in Mumbai, where the CBI has set up base, and where she was quizzed yesterday.
On request of CBI, Mumbai Police provided security to Rhea Chakraborty.
According to India Today, CBI will be questioning Rhea regarding finances, Sushant Singh Rajput's mental health and the drug angle. The two charges on Rhea are abetment to suicide and embezzlement of funds.
She is likely to be questioned about when she got to know that Sushant Singh Rajput was suffering from depression. CBI is likely to probe Rhea about the expenses, her income, her movable and immovable assets. ED has also conducted a search on Rhea Chakraborty's bank locker and CBI is likely to question the actor regarding that.
Rhea Chakraborty, dated Sushant for a year. She left Rajput's home on 8 June, six days before he was found dead. Yesterday, she was asked ten key questions, including details of her relationships with Sushant and his family, why she left the house and if she had any contact with him after she left.
The CBI took over the case following an order from the Supreme Court, is investigating allegations by Sushant Singh Rajput's family that Rhea Chakraborty and her family mentally harassed the actor, took money from him and had a possible role in his death in June.
Rhea Chakraborty told the media about the "unbearable mental torture" of being investigated by multiple agencies; she is currently the subject of at least three separate inquiries - by the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
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