At
last
some
respite
for
Rabia
Khan,
mother
of
bollywood
actress
Jiah
Khan
who
was
found
dead
in
her
residence
at
Mumbai
in
2013.
The
Bombay
high
court
on
Thursday
ordered
the
Mumbai
Police
to
hand
over
the
case
to
the
CBI,
thirteen
months
after
the
actress
was
found
dead.
The
court
came
with
this
order
after
Rabia
Khan
filed
a
plea
last
October
seeking
a
probe
by
the
Central
Bureau
of
Investigation
(CBI).
The
court
also
pulled
up
the
CBI
for
its
reluctance
to
take
up
the
case
investigation
on
grounds
of
shortage
of
manpower,
as
stated
by
CBI
counsel
Vedika
Gonsalves.
"It
is
not
expected
of
CBI
to
come
out
with
such
an
excuse
-
that
they
do
not
have
enough
officers
to
conduct
a
probe.
In
a
country
of
one
billion
people,
an
agency
like
CBI
should
not
take
such
a
stance
otherwise,
where
will
the
citizens
go
to
seek
justice," Justice
Kanade
noted.
He
added
that
two
officers
of
the
US
Consulate
remained
present
throughout
the
hearing
as
the
deceased
was
an
American
citizen.
"This
shows
how
much
concern
that
country
has
for
its
citizens.
Look
at
our
own
agency
which
is
refusing
to
do
the
probe...
they
(CBI)
should
learn
from
their
(US)
example," he
said.
The
presence
of
the
US
consulate
officials
came
in
the
wake
of
Rabia's
letter
to
then
US
envoy
Nancy
Powell
seeking
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation
(FBI)'s
help
in
the
probe,
and
the
US
agency
saying
it
was
prepared
to
do
so
if
India
permitted.
'Nishabd'
actress
Jiah
Khan
who
was
an
US
citizen,
25,
was
found
dead
in
her
Juhu
residence
late
on
June
3,
2013.
A
suicide
note
was
apparently
recovered
by
the
police
later
purportedly
penned
by
her.
Sooraj
Pancholi,
son
of
the
bollywood
actor
Aditya
Pancholi
was
arrested
for
allegedly
abetting
Jiah
Khan's
suicide.
He
was
later
released
on
bail.
Rabia
Khan
who
was
dissatisfied
with
the
probe,
moved
the
high
court
and
submitted
reports
by
independent
experts
to
support
her
contention
that
her
daughter
Jiah
Khan
was
murdered.
Finally,
the
high
court
has
ordered
the
Mumbai
police
to
hand
over
the
case
to
CBI.