Chances are very, very high that Sushant Singh Rajput was murdered: Lawyer

New Delhi : Amid several controversies on the suicide of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, his family lawyer Vikas Singh has said on Monday that there are very, very high chances of the actor's murder.

Singh, a former Additional Solicitor General, said that after the death of the 34-year-old actor, his flatmate Sidharth Pithani remained in constant touch with the bereaved family till the time an FIR was filed. "But after a case was registered (in Patna), he started helping Sushant’s ex-girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty," the lawyer said.

"Till the time we filed the FIR, Pithani was in contact with the family and gave an impression that it was a suicide and that Sushant was under depression. The bereaved family was believing the same. But once the FIR was registered (by Sushant’s father KK Singh), he was helping Rhea by sharing that email. It was at that point that the family felt it could be a murder. Now, from what he has done and questions that have appeared, the chances are very, very high that it could be a murder," Singh told IANS.

Talking more on the details of Sushant's death, the lawyer claimed that the mark on Sushant's neck does not seem to be of the cloth he was found hanging with.

“The mark on Sushant’s body was a very uniform mark; such a mark can typically be made by a belt,” he said, adding that he wasn’t sure if it was a dog leash or some kind of a belt.

The Supreme Court had last week reserved order on Rhea Chakraborty’s plea for the transfer of the Patna FIR to the Mumbai Police.

Justice Hrishikesh Roy had noted that Rhea herself has pleaded for a CBI probe. Both the Bihar government and Sushant’s father are also seeking a CBI probe into the actor’s death, while the Maharashtra government opposes it.