21/04/2019
Mumbai: The father of the dead model-turned-actor Shikha Joshi has written a two-page letter to the President of India requesting him to transfer the case to Delhi from Mumbai’s Oshiwara police station. He has also sought the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Shikha’s mysterious death case.
The letter, in possession of the Free Press Journal, has been received by the President’s Secretariat, Central Registry Section on January 30, 2017. The same letter has been copied to the Prime Minister Office (PMO) as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for further necessary action.
At present, Mumbai police are investigating the matter.
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Citing sensitivity of the matter, Shikha’s father Khima Nand Joshi highlighted that being a senior citizen he is unable to travel from New Delhi to Mumbai to fight for the justice of his daughter.
“I and my family members feel unsafe to go to Mumbai to fight for justice,” wrote Shikha’s father in the letter.
“It is my humble request to transfer the case to the Supreme Court or CBI. Besides this, as I am an old man and a citizen of Delhi, I am unable to fight this case in Mumbai,” reads the letter.
The model-turned actor Shikha Joshi died in a mysterious circumstance on May 16, 2015 in a flat in Lokhandwala, Andheri (West), where she was staying as a paying guest with a room partner Madhu Bharti, who recorded actor’s dying declaration in her cell phone.
Initially, Versova police registered Accidental Death Report (ADR) in the matter considering it as ‘suicide case’.
However, after the intervention of MHA the case was re-opened last year and converted into ‘abetment to suicide’ in which Khar-based cosmetic surgeon Dr. Vijay Sharma and others were named accused after 17 months of her death.
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