Wrong to say Sushant was treated for depression going by meds: Docs

Mumbai/New Delhi, Sep 7 Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput had been taking medicines for panic disorder and seizures since October 2019, though several senior doctors maintain that it will be "wrong" to say that these medicines were being prescribed for "depression" without knowing the case history of the patient and the probable disorders the late actor was facing.

The experts' view came amid Rhea Chakraborty filing a complaint with the Mumbai Police against her late boyfriend Sushant's sister Priyanka Singh and Dr Tarun Kumar of Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi and others for offences of forgery, NDPS Act and Tele Medicine Practice Guidelines 2020 for having sent a "bogus" medical prescription depicting Sushant as an OPD person when he was in Mumbai on June 8.

The remarks also follow several claims being made that Sushant was being treated for depression.

According to sources, Sushant - who was found dead on June 14 this year - was taking medicines like Lonazep 0.25 mg and 0.5 mg, Daxid 50 mg.

Sources said that Sushant bought these medicines on October 31 last year on the prescriptions given by a senior Mumbai doctor.

Similarly on January 10 this year, Sushant had bought medicines like Flunil 20 mg capsule, Ativan 1 mg tablet, Qutipin tablet, Melatonin 3 mg softgel, Modalert 100 tablet, Etilaam 0.5 tablet.

The second lot of medicines were bought on the purported recommendations of another senior doctor, who treated the late actor.

According to senior doctors, Lonazep 0.25 mg Tablet MD is a prescription medicine used to treat epilepsy

( With inputs from IANS )