CBI Court Acquit Sooraj In Jiah Khan’s Case

Special judge AS Sayyad heard the final arguments and delivered the judgement.

Khan - an American citizen - was found hanging in her Mumbai home in June 2013. A six-page letter purportedly written by Khan was found at the site and later became central to the accusations against Pancholi - the son of actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab.

The CBI claimed that the note narrated her "intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and physical torture" at his hands which eventually prompted her to commit suicide.

Back in 2013, Jiah's mother had moved the Bombay High Court and sought a CBI probe in the case while alleging that her daughter had been murdered. The CBI took over the probe from the Maharashtra Police in 2014. The case eventually was reassigned to a special CBI court in 2021 after the sessions court said it did not have the jurisdiction over the case as the CBI had probed it.