The Bombay High
Court on Thursday quashed the Look Out Circulars (LOCs) issued against Rhea
Chakraborty, her brother and father by the CBI in connection with its probe
into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
A division bench
of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Manjusha Deshpande allowed the petitions
filed by Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and their father Indrajit against
the LOCs issued against them in 2020.
CBI's advocate
Shreeram Shirsat requested the bench to stay the operation of its order for a
period of four weeks so that the agency could file an appeal in the Supreme
Court.
The HC bench,
however, refused to stay its order.
Rajput was found
dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14, 2020.
While the Mumbai
police registered an Accidental Death Report and started a probe into the case,
Rajput's father in July 2020 lodged a complaint with the Bihar police, alleging
that the actor's girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her family members had abetted
his suicide.
The case was
later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which has since
then been carrying out a probe into it.
The LOCs were
issued in August 2020 against Rhea Chakraborty, her brother and their father.
In September last
year, the high court granted a temporary suspension on the LOC issued against
Showik enabling him to travel abroad.
In 2020, both Rhea
and Showik were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drugs case
related to Rajput. They were later granted bail.