The Bombay High Court has quashed Look Out Circulars (LOC) issued against Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik Chakraborty and their father Indrajit Chakraborty, an Army veteran, in connection with actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
The actress, her brother and father can now travel outside India without the court’s permission.
The LOC was issued against the trio in 2020 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency investigating the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. An LOC restricts an individual from foreign travel without prior approval from the court.
According to a report in PTI, division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Manjusha Deshpande allowed the petitions filed by Rhea Chakraborty, her brother and their father against the LOCs issued against them.
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. However, the HC refused to stay its order.
The siblings were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau under the provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act post the death of her then boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput. They are currently out on bail in the case. The actress spent a month in the Byculla jail, Mumbai, in 2020.
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