Sushant Singh Rajput death: Case filed in Bihar against Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

A case has been filed against Bollywood celebrities Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and Ekta Kapoor in connection with the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput.

According to news agency Asian News International, advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed a case against eight people under Sections 306, 109, 504, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code in connection with actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide. The case has been filed in a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur.

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Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam had recently tweeted that Sushant lost seven films, which he had signed. “The film industry's ruthlessness works on a very different level. And that ruthlessness took the life of one talented person," Nirupam mentioned in the tweet. Read his tweet below

Following the death of the 34-year-old actor, a number of celebrities have come out to speak up against the media industry.

Saif Ali Khan recently hit out at people who are "talking rubbish "on social media during the time of the tragedy. Khan further said that Bollywood is "famously competitive", and those pretending to care for Rajput was a sign of "ultimate hypocrisy" and an "insult" to the dead.

In a lengthy Facebook post, Dabangg director Abhinav Kashyap too drew links between the actor's death and the entertainment industry, stating, "I fear his death is just the tip of the iceberg just like the #metoo movement was for a much bigger malaise in Bollywood."

Read Kashyap's entire post below:

Ranvir Shorey too spoke about the "inherited privilege" that the elite club of Bollywood enjoys and gets to decide who will be a star. He also went on speak about the “games they play, and their two facedness” and the “power they wield with zero accountability”.

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Celebrities like Shekhar Kapur, Dibakar Banerjee, and Anubhav Sinha too have spoken about the link between the way Bollywood functions and the actor’s death.

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Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide in his Mumbai home on 14 June. Following his death, the actor's team confirmed the news with a statement that read, "It pains us to share that Sushant Singh Rajput is no longer with us. We request his fans to keep him in their thoughts and celebrate his life, and his work like they have done so far. We request media to help us maintain privacy at this moment of grief."