Rhea's interview a failed attempt to change narrative: Sushant's brother-in-law

Vishal Kirti, the brother-in-law of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has slammed actress Rhea Chakraborty saying her recent interview was a failed attempt to change the narrative of the ongoing case.

Vishal, who is married to Sushant's sister Shweta Singh Kirti, has written a long blog post defending the late actor's family, and coming down on Sushant's girlfriend Rhea for claims that the actor took drugs and had mental health issues.

Without mentioning Rhea's name in the blog post, Vishal opened up about the "infamous interviews of the prime suspect who is currently under investigation by three central agencies — ED, CBI and NCB".

He pointed out how "mental health is being used by the accused as a cover-up for a crime".

"First, a big disclosure has been made by sources in CBI to an honest media house that moments before Sushant's reported time of death, he was looking at properties in Himachal, Kerala and Coorg on his search engine. Mumbai Police mislead the entire country with a lie that he was searching for terms like 'painless death' before the reported time of death, according to the channel," he wrote.

Vishal claimed the accused's definition of depression seems very self-serving.

"I noticed in the interviews that the accused kept bringing up 'going to Coorg' as a sign of depression and she would call the infamous psychiatrist to obtain meds for him as soon as Sushant brought up 'going to Coorg'. Looks like the moment talks of Coorg came up, the accused's rebuttal was gaslighting (one type of gaslighting is making someone believe that they have mental health issues and need medication when things are not going according to the gaslighter's self-serving plans). Even if we believe that Sushant used to have 'criminally induced' depressive episodes, talks of Coorg and throwing the accused out of the home seem like an improvement in condition and a threat to the accused and the accused reacted by attempting to drug him again. The narrative which the accused and the 'chamcha' channels are trying to set is that it was a suicide because Sushant was not taking his genuine prescribed medications for a non-criminally induced mental health issue and the suicide happened because of the withdrawal effects of prescription medication," he wrote.

The real narrative, according to him, seems to be that Sushant started improving around mid-May as soon as he stopped getting criminally drugged.

Talking about confinement and control, Vishal wrote: "Confinement and control are the strengths of a sociopath. The accused says in the interview that my three sisters-in-law who went to Waterstone Resorts (which is emerging as a drug venue for the accused and her stooges) left on the same day and did not stay over and that seems to be because of familial relationship problems."

"The real story is that though Sushant got his and his sisters' tickets booked for Chandigarh (since he wanted to go back with them), he ultimately succumbed to the blackmailing tactics of the conspirators and got his tickets cancelled. And this is how confinement and control look like. Someone wanting to leave but held hostage with some form of control. I am glad that my sisters-in-law didn't stay there with the accused and her stooges. Who knows what new charges she could have drummed up against my sisters-in-law, given that we know the accused's capacity to create problems between Sushant and family by making up allegations? Same story in January 2020 when the accused forced Sushant to come back by using her specialty of control, over the phone," he added.

Fourth, Vishal pointed out that the accused said Sushant didn't have a good relationship with his father because his father had left him when he was young.

"The real story is that my father-in-law went to Delhi to live with Sushant and Priyanka Di while Sushant was attending a high school in Delhi and Priyanka Di was in college. To me, this is a sign of a father dedicated to his children's education. My wife was attending high school in the best school in Patna and my late mother-in-law stayed back in Patna so that my wife could finish her schooling. All I can see is middle class parents making sacrifices to expose their children to the best opportunities and as a matter of fact Sushant's father was living with him and supporting him. Why is she cooking up stories about father abandoning his son?"

Lastly, he wrote about his sister-in-law Meetu.

"I noticed that the accused was trying to pass on the ball to Meetu Di when it came to the question as to what happened between June 8 and 14. It was a calculated move, trying to deflect the blame. For starters, we are all so thankful to Meetu Di that she was physically there for Sushant when nobody else was. Now that I think about it, living in that house with the accused's stooges was nothing short of dangerous. What the accused should tell the CBI is if she met or communicated with Sushant (after Meetu Di left on the 12) and blackmailed him more or that was not needed because the accused knew that something bad is going to happen to Sushant as soon as Meetu Di left."

He doesn't think these "interviews are going to prevent her arrest, and said that it was a failed attempt to change the narrative". (IANS) 

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