Sushant Singh Rajput Death: ED Rejects Rhea Chakraborty’s Plea To Postpone Probe; Siddharth Pithani To Be Summoned Now (Pic credit: Instagram/rhea_chakraborty)
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Sushant Singh Rajput’s death investigation has been taking new twists and turns with each passing day. Recently actor Rhea Chakraborty had requested the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to postpone her inquiry. According to the latest update, the ED has rejected her plea and the actor is told to be present to record her statement.
On Thursday night, a mail was sent to the Enforcement Directorate, in which Rhea Chakraborty had requested them to postpone her inquiry. The reason given by her was that the case is still running in the Supreme Court. The news was confirmed by Rhea’s lawyer Satish Manshinde.
As per a statement, Manshinde said, “Rhea Chakraborty has requested that the recording of her statement be postponed till Supreme Court hearing.”
But turns out that the ED has rejected her plea. A source close to the development in a Zee news report said, “the ED has asked Rhea Chakraborty to join the probe. Her request has been denied and no exemption given by ED.”
In other news, the source has also revealed that ED has schedule to summon Sushant Singh Rajput’s friends Siddharth Pithani. He will be summoned on Saturday, August 8 in Hyderabad.
For the unversed, Rhea Chakraborty is being probed by the ED after a Money Laundering case was filed against her. The inquiry is in order to investigate the allegations of her spending Sushant Singh Rajput’s Rs 15 crores. The ED has even included Rhea’s family in the case after Sushant’s father filed an FIR in Bihar.
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