Ram Kadam slams Thackeray govt for ignoring drugs angle in Sushant's death

BJP leader Ram Kadam has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, asking whether the MVA government ‘directed the Mumbai Police to ignore’ the drug angle in Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case. The BJP leader said, rendering a blind eye to this dangerous nexus of drug mafia would have a detrimental effect on the youth and several young actors like Sushant. “Maharashtra Government should at least take full responsibility for their failure and for allowing the Bollywood-drug chain to blossom,” Ram Kadam wrote. A war of words between the ruling and the opposition parties erupted the AIIMS' medical board ruled out murder in the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, terming it "a case of hanging and death by suicide", the premier institute's forensic chief Dr. Sudhir Gupta said on Saturday. Congress leader Sachin Sawant had attacked the BJP government, accusing it of conspiring to deflect the attention of the countrymen from the failures of the central government.

Did Maharashtra Government #MVA direct @CPMumbaiPolice Mumbai Police to ignore drug angle in #SushantSinghRajputCase ?@AnilDeshmukhNCP@OfficeofUT@CMOMaharashtrapic.twitter.com/Utt86vUWad

— Ram Kadam - राम कदम (@ramkadam) October 4, 2020

Earlier, Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh said, Some people with “vested interests” targeted Mumbai police without knowing anything about the investigation, he told PTI. He further said, that  the city police’s probe was professional, and doctors at the Cooper Hospital in the city who performed autopsy had also done their job thoroughly. “We all stand vindicated by these findings of AIIMS,” the police commissioner said. The Supreme Court had upheld transfer of the FIR lodged by Bihar police in the Rajput case and not the Mumbai police’s investigation, Singh said. The court didn’t find any fault with our investigation,” he said. Singh further said that the city police had submitted investigation report to the apex court in a sealed cover and it was seen by only six persons -- the investigating officer, senior police inspector, deputy commissioner of police, commissioner of police, advocate general of the state and the judge. “Without knowing anything about our investigation and without having seen our report some vested interests criticized our investigation,” he said.