CBI court acquits actor Sooraj Pancholi in Jiah Khan suicide case
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: A special CBI court on Friday acquitted actor Sooraj Pancholi, 32, of charges that he abetted the suicide of 25-year-old actor Jiah Khan in 2013. Jiah Khan suicide case: Actor Sooraj Pancholi on his way to the CBI court for a verdict in the suicide case of actor Jiah Khan in Mumbai on Friday Pancholi, the son of actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, was present in the court when special judge AS Sayyad pronounced the verdict. On July 3, 2014, the high court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the death and find out if Jiah Khan died by suicide or was killed. The central agency said the note seized by the Juhu police on June 10, 2013, was written by Jiah Khan and narrated her ordeal, her intimate relationship, the physical abuse and mental and physical torture by Pancholi which led her to commit suicide.