The CBI has fileed a chargesheet in Bollywood actress Jiah Khan's death case. The actress was found dead in her flat in June 2013 and what the police say is a suicide.

Jiah's mother has alleged that her daughter's boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi was in relationship with the actress and should be probed for the death of her daughter. She has alleged that it was not suicide.

The case had come to CBI last year following the orders of the Bombay High Court, which had directed the agency to probe whether the death was suicide or homicide on the plea of Jiah's mother Rabia.


"The High Court has directed the CBI to consider whether this is a case of suicidal or homicidal death. If it comes to a conclusion that it is a homicidal death, then further probe be made to find out who is the perpetrator of the crime and accordingly action be taken," CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad had said after registration of the case.


She said that Mumbai Police have already filed a chargesheet on January 11, 2014 against a person under section 306 (abatement of suicide) of IPC.


Explaining the reasons for transferring the case to CBI, the bench had said forensic opinion privately obtained by Khan's mother Rabia were at variance with those of Mumbai Police, suggesting there was a "lacuna" in the investigation.

Jiah, the 25-year-old British-American actress, best known for her role in the film, Nishabd, with Amitabh Bachchan, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home in Juhu on June 3, 2013.

Pic: Jiah Khan and her boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi