Pancholi charged with abetment of Jiah Khan’s suicide, says reports.
By Dileep Thekkethil
In a dramatic development in the death of actress Jiah Khan, who was pregnant at the time of her death, reports say quoting a CBI report that her boyfriend at that time, actor Sooraj Pancholi, extricated the foetus with his hands and disposed of it in the toilet. Pancholi is likely to be charged with abetment of suicide, say reports.
Khan, a budding actress, was found hanging from the ceiling of her apartment on June 2013 and since then the mystery over her death has been haunting Bollywood.
Jiah’s mother Rabia had alleged Sooraj Pancholi, son of actors Zarina Wahab and Aditya Pancholi was responsible for her daughter’s death, following which he was arrested on charges of abetment to suicide.
After his release, Rabia moved the Bombay High Court alleging foul play in the death of her daughter. The court ordered a CBI inquiry into the case and the charge sheetof abetment to suicide, was filed yesterday, say reports.
Now, a source has told Mumbai Mirror that Jiah was four months pregnant when she revealed the news to Sooraj. He advised to abort the baby by visiting a physician. But the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) was not fruitful and both went to a gynaecologist who prescribed stronger medicines.
The source said, “After taking the medicine, Khan started hemorrhaging and called Pancholi for help. She was in pain and needed immediate medical attention, but Pancholi allegedly asked her to wait and called up the gynaecologist for guidance. He was asked to rush Khan to the hospital as the foetus had probably aborted but had not been expelled from the body, which is probably what led to the haemorrhaging.”
Fearing that his acting career would be in jeopardy if the world came to know about Jiah’s pregnancy and abortion, Pancholi instead of taking her to a hospital, extracted the foetus with his own hands and disposed it off in the toilet, said the unknown source to the tabloid.
The incident left Jiah emotionally shattered, and finally pushed her to kill herself, the source added.