Bollywood Arrest: Suraj Pancholi Arrested for Abetting Jiah Khan's Suicide
In a surprising move, police arrested Suraj Pancholi, the boyfriend of late Bollywood actress Jiah Khan, on suspicion of abetting her suicide. Police in Mumbai took him into custody on Tuesday.
Khan hanged herself last Monday, and a six-page suicide note recently surfaced. It accuses an unnamed person responsible for her extreme depression and states that she was tortured and abused, raped, and forced to have an abortion. Police arrested Pancholi, who was Khan's last boyfriend and the person she spent her last two nights with and the last person to speak to Khan before she died.
"We registered an FIR under the IPC's section 306 (abetment of suicide) on the basis of Rabiya Khan's statement and arrested Suraj. We will produce him in the Andheri court on Tuesday for remand," senior inspector Arun Bghagat told the Times of India.
Pancholi has not commented on the charges against him, but Khan's mother, Rabiya, is very vocal and claims that Pancholi ruined her daughter's life.
"My point is to tell you the truth. It is being said that she was depressed and had no work, but it was not the case," Rabiya Khan said at a press conference. "She was attending at least three to four events a month. She was making money and was living comfortably in her house with two maids and even had a car and driver. It was the insecurity that her love was not respected and recognized that was killing her day by day."
Khan, 25, was born in the United States but moved to India in order to pursue an acting career. She starred in the 2007 Hindi film "Nishabd," and her career immediately took off. The following year she starred in "Ghajini," which was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2008.
Reports initially stated that Khan was depressed and had been struggling in her career.
