Mumbai: Sushant Singh Rajput's family lawyer Vikas Singh recently said that the process to alienate the M.S. Dhoni starrer from his family didn't happen overnight. He listed the steps the late actor's girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty took to systematically separate him from his inner circle.
In an interview with a leading portal, the lawyer said, "In the offence of abetment of suicide, it is not an offence that happens over a day. It involves a bundle of facts. The bundle of facts, in this case, started when Rhea stopped the access of the father to the son."
He stated that the frequency of their conversations decreased, and the family had difficulty in getting in touch with Sushant, even when they tried reaching him through his bodyguard.
"That was the first step. The second step was to remove the bodyguard, the servants, the cook from the house. The third step was taking over the bank accounts, the credit cards, the pin numbers. The fourth step was, for the first time, Sushant started taking some medicines. The family doesn't know what medicines he was taking," he added.
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He further told, "She conjured up a situation where she could make him feel there is something wrong with him."
She also used to sit in every production meeting with Sushant and insisted to be cast in his projects, the lawyer said. "She took over his mind and his affairs," he concluded.
Talking about the case of the missing money from Kedarnath starrers' bank account, the lawyer said, "During his stay with Rhea, Rs 17 crore came into the account and Rs 15 crore went out. Now you must appreciate that not a single property was bought, nor was a big car purchased, so where did this money go?"
He accused the Mumbai police of trying to derail the investigation by summoning Bollywood personalities and focusing on the nepotism narrative.
"As far as the Rs 50 crore is concerned, that is for a three-year period," the lawyer clarified and said that this should also be investigated.
