Actor Shekhar Suman claimed that there was more than what meets the eye in the suicide of rising Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput

Mumbai: Actor Shekhar Suman claimed that there was more than what meets the eye in the suicide of rising Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput, and made a strong pitch for a CBI inquiry into the case.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Suman, who recently launched a campaign 'Justice For Sushant Forum', was addressing a press conference, a day after he met Rajput's bereaved father at his residence.

"I strongly believe that Sushant's death is not an open and shut case of suicide," asserted Suman who claimed to have closely followed the investigation trail and pointed towards "missing links" like absence of a suicide note and facts like misplacement of a duplicate key to the house, and change of SIM card by the actor "50 times in a month".

Shekhar SumanSuman clarified that he was not insisting that the deceased actor's death was "not a case of suicide" but added that even if the 34-year-old had taken his own life, "those guilty of abetment must be identified and brought to justice".

"Besides Shah Rukh Khan and I, Sushant was the only one to have started off as a TV actor and achieve success on the big screen thereafter. A self-respecting man who did not believe in massaging egos of big shots, he must have become an eyesore for many," remarked the 66-year-old.