Shekhar Suman has been at the forefront of a movement insisting on a CBI inquiry into Sushant Singh Rajput’s death by suicide on June 14. The veteran actor has gathered much support on social media and after being in quarantine for three months, he stepped out to meet the late actor’s family. Amidst the Covid-19 health scare, Shekhar Suman reached out to Sushant Singh Rajput’s family in Patna, their common hometown. In an exclusive tête-à-tête with ETimes, Shekhar Suman spoke about his forum justice for Sushant, his meeting with the actor’s family and clarified on reports of his political inclination.
Why did you feel the need for a CBI inquiry?
There is this question that’s arising in everybody’s mind. There are millions of people who are just demanding that there are a lot of facts and evidence that are cropping up every day, of course, under the periphery of speculation. So I said the best way to quell all these rumors and speculations is to do a CBI inquiry. Nobody wants this to be a murder or foul play, we hope it was a suicide, but since the facts and evidences are pointing towards everything else, except the suicide, a CBI inquiry into this will quell all these rumors, will put at rest all of this once and for all.These are all conjectures, you know, nobody knows the truth, but it seems under the circumstances, you cannot say with a hundred percent guarantee.
You stated that Sushant had changed 50 sim cards?
What I’m saying is what I’m seeing and what has been fed on the social media and newspaper reports and everything else. This is not my personal conjecture, it is on the basis of what I am seeing and reading. That also I read somewhere. This is nothing that I personally know because I didn’t know Sushant, we were never close. The only interaction I had with him was when he was my co-competitor on a show. After that we never met. But the Bihari connection, the fact that I had lost my son, those were the emotional connections. I felt that one should raise one’s v