Rhea Chakraborty is one of the most renowned faces became popular after Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide spent close to a month in Byculla jail in a case relating to the death of her boyfriend, the late Sushant Singh Rajput. Activist Sudha Bharadwaj recalled meeting her in jail in 2020.
Sudha speaking about her interaction with Rhea said, “The Sushant Singh Rajput thing had been going on and on and on in the media, like it was crazy. At that time, we used to say that Rhea is being made a scapegoat. We were very unhappy with it. So, I was very glad that she was not brought into the main barrack; she was kept in the special cell. I think she was kept there so that she did not see the TV because people would keep that TV on. All the time hearing about your case would have been too upsetting for her,”
She further said, “I must say for somebody, who had been thrown into a situation like that… for her as a young person, she took it very sportingly. And she was so friendly with people. She was so friendly with the children. The first day (they met her), everybody was going ‘Rhea kahan hai (where is Rhea)?’ You know, how people are. But she would never make a thing of it. And when she left, she had some money remaining in her account, so for all the barracks she asked for sweets to be given, and everybody came down to wish her goodbye. Then, everybody said, ‘Rhea, one dance, one dance’. And she actually obliged. So sweet. She danced with them (the inmates).”
The actress was dating Sushant Singh Rajput at the time he was found dead in his Mumbai apartment. Days after his death, Sushant's father KK Singh had filed an FIR accusing Rhea of abetment of suicide and money laundering. The case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation with the Enforcement Directorate and Narcotics Control Bureau investigating the accusations of money laundering and drugs, respectively.
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