Sooraj
Pancholi:
Nearly
a
decade
after
the
actress
Jiah
Khan
case,
the
prime
accused,
her
then
boyfriend
Sooraj
Pancholi,
has
been
acquitted
in
the
suicide
case
of
the
actress.
The
Central
Bureau
of
Investigation
(CBI)
court
in
Mumbai
pronounced
the
verdict
on
Friday,
April
28.
Jiah
Khan,
who
was
25
years
old,
committed
suicide
on
June
3,
2013,
at
her
home
in
Mumbai.
And
now,
having
remained
silent
about
the
case
for
all
these
years,
Sooraj
has
finally
opened
up
about
his
side
of
the
story.
SOORAJ
PANCHOLI
DESCRIBES
HIS
RELATIONSHIP
WITH
JIAH
KHAN
Speaking
to
the
Hindustan
Times
in
an
interview,
Sooraj
Pancholi
shared
his
feelings
about
being
a
free
man
now
and
also
described
his
relationship
with
late
Jiah
Khan.
He
said,
"You
will
be
shocked
to
know
I
only
knew
her
for
five
months,
it
was
a
very
short
relationship."
He
further
added
that
he
knew
her
only
for
six
months,
out
of
which
they
were
in
a
relationship
for
five
months.
Saying
that
it
is
very
difficult
to
know
what
a
person
is
going
through
in
just
a
span
of
five
months,
Sooraj
said,
"And
at
that
age,
I
was
a
little
too
immature
to
even
understand
the
magnitude
of
what
she
was
going
through."
"I
informed
her
family
that
she
had
tried
to
commit
suicide
months
before
she
killed
herself,
six
months
before
she
died," he
shared.
He
also
revealed
that
Jiah
had
attempted
suicide
even
before
meeting
him.
He
stated,
"It
was
2012.
I
had
sent
for
the
doctors
for
her.
If
I
was
not
present
that
day,
she
would
have
passed
away
long
back."
"I
had
informed
her
mother
at
that
time
'aunty,
this
is
what
she
has
done' She
wounded
herself
really
bad
on
her
arm
with
a
piece
of
glass.
Her
family
was
in
London
then,
her
mother
said
'beta
you
take
care
of
Jiah,
I
am
going
to
take
the
next
flight'"
he
said.
Sooraj
is
the
son
of
actors
Aditya
Pancholi
and
Zarina
Wahab.
He
made
his
acting
debut
with
Nikkhil
Advani's
romantic
movie
Hero
in
2015,
opposite
Suniel
Shetty's
daughter,
Athiya
Shetty.
The
film
was
a
remake
of
Subhash
Ghai's
1983
blockbuster
film
of
the
same
name,
which
starred
Jackie
Shroff
and
Meenakshi
Seshadri.