Jiah and Suraj dated for an year before the relationship ended
New Delhi:
Aspiring actor Suraj Pancholi has been denied bail by a Mumbai court. Mr Pancholi, charged with the abetment of actress Jiah Khan's suicide, will now stay in jail till June 27 as ordered by the court last week.
Mr Pancholi, 21, was arrested on June 11 after Jiah's family handed over a letter it had found in her bag five days after she hung herself in her Mumbai home. The six-page note does not name anyone, but appears to refer to a romantic relationship. "If I stay here, I will crave you and miss you," the letter says.
Mr Pancholi's lawyer has argued that the letter does not name his client and therefore there is no evidence that he abetted the 25-year-old's suicide. (Also read: Once Bollywood's brightest young thing)
A doctor has testified in court that Jiah had been depressedA post-mortem report has revealed that no marks, apart from those on her neck and throat, were found on her body, police said. No traces of alcohol or drugs were found either. (Also read: Actor Jiah Khan commits suicide in Mumbai home)
Mr Pancholi is the son of Bollywood stars Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab. He reportedly dated Jiah for a year before the relationship ended. "There is a suicide note, there is a statement of (Khan's) mother and some circumstantial evidence of triggering," said Additional Police Commissioner Vishwas Nangre-Patil to news agency AFP when justifying the arrest.
Jiah Khan, born in New York before moving to London and then Mumbai, made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with the controversial film Nishabd, playing a teenager in love with her best friend's much older father, played by Amitabh Bachchan.
She went on to star alongside actor Aamir Khan in the blockbuster Ghajini.
Mr Pancholi, 21, was arrested on June 11 after Jiah's family handed over a letter it had found in her bag five days after she hung herself in her Mumbai home. The six-page note does not name anyone, but appears to refer to a romantic relationship. "If I stay here, I will crave you and miss you," the letter says.
Mr Pancholi's lawyer has argued that the letter does not name his client and therefore there is no evidence that he abetted the 25-year-old's suicide. (Also read: Once Bollywood's brightest young thing)
A doctor has testified in court that Jiah had been depressedA post-mortem report has revealed that no marks, apart from those on her neck and throat, were found on her body, police said. No traces of alcohol or drugs were found either. (Also read: Actor Jiah Khan commits suicide in Mumbai home)
Mr Pancholi is the son of Bollywood stars Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab. He reportedly dated Jiah for a year before the relationship ended. "There is a suicide note, there is a statement of (Khan's) mother and some circumstantial evidence of triggering," said Additional Police Commissioner Vishwas Nangre-Patil to news agency AFP when justifying the arrest.
Jiah Khan, born in New York before moving to London and then Mumbai, made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with the controversial film Nishabd, playing a teenager in love with her best friend's much older father, played by Amitabh Bachchan.
She went on to star alongside actor Aamir Khan in the blockbuster Ghajini.
