MUMBAI: The late Jiah Khan's mother Rabia has been fighting for justice for her daughter. She has welcomed the court’s decision to move the case to a CBI Court. She shared, “The innocent Jiah had no fault. A wise decision by the court now. CBI will retrieve evidence from Maharashtra police after nine years. CBI has Scarman's report, experts forensic report, they need to send evidence to forensics to analyse whether the ligature could imprint just injuries on Jiah. We expect applaudable answers to the truth because Jiah would never take her life, and she was killed beyond a reasonable doubt.”

In 2013, Jiah was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her apartment. Her death was deemed as suicide, but the actress's mother claimed that her daughter's boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi had murdered her. It was only in January 2018, nearly five years after Jiah's suicide, that a court in Mumbai charged him for abetting Jiah's suicide.

Jiah was a British American actress who had made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with Ram Gopal Varma's ‘Nishabd’ alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

Credits: TOI