Sooraj Pancholi removed Jiah's foetus as she bled: CBI chargesheet

The Bombay High Court in July 2014 had handed the special crime division of the CBI the task to investigative whether actress Jiah Khan;s death was suicidial or homicidial, and although there was found to have been no concrete evidence to make it a case for homicide, new information submitted by the CBI may make a case for the abetment to suicide against Sooraj Pancholi a wee bit stronger.

The CBI charge sheet, submitted to a sessions court on Wednesday, describes Khan's abortion and Pancholi's role in it in graphic detail. A source gave details of the charge sheet to Mumbai Mirror stating that Jiah was four weeks pregnant when she informed Pancholi about it. The couple then approached a physician who prescribed some medicines for medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) but that didn't help. The couple then approached another doctor and finally a gynaecologist who prescribed a stronger and more effective combination of drugs.
"After taking the medicine, Khan started haemorrhaging 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 hospital as the foetus had probably aborted but had not been expelled from the body, which is probably what led to the hemorrhaging," the charge sheet says.
It adds that Pancholi was afraid that if Khan got hospitalised, their relationship would become public knowledge and his career could grind to a halt even before taking off. Sooraj then decided to take matters in his own hand rather than risk going to a hospital. He extricated the foetus and disposed of it in the toilet, the charge sheet alleges.

This allegedly left a deep emotional scar on Khan as she was very possessive about Pancholi and the latter started avoiding her, possibly for the sake of his acting career. "This added to her depression which finally drove her to suicide," the charge sheet states.
The earlier charge sheet filed by the Juhu police after Khan's suicide does not mention this incident and it came to light only when the CBI recorded the statement of doctors, who are among the 11 new witnesses examined.

Officially, the CBI was tight-lipped about the contents of the charge sheet and only said that a case under Section 306 of the IPC was made out against a "private person".

Section 306 of the IPC deals with abetment to suicide and carries a maximum imprisonment of 10 years and also a fine.

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