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Rabiya Khan, mother of actress Jiah Khan, who was allegedly murdered and later claimed to have committed suicide, has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an appeal for
justice. Mrs Khan mentioned how she, for the last four years, has been persistently fighting for justice and is still struggling. This is what the letter read: "My Open letter to
Indian PM hon Narendra Modi and British authorities on the platform where every citizen has a right to approach with their quest and grievances, therefor here is my cry to you honourable,
sir/Madame, I am a British citizen the mother of Jiah Khan, who was murdered in india mumbai on 3June 2013. It has been four years now that I had been persistently fighting for justice. All
the forensic evidence that I have obtained from experts in India and England is pointing towards homicide. Analysis of the forensic experts shows that the injuries on my daughter's body
are inconsistent with the alleged suicidal hanging and all forensic evidence strongly suggest that she was murdered and then hanged to make it look like a suicide. The Hon'ble Bombay
High Court, in July 2014, transferred the investigation to the CBI with a clear mandate to find out whether my daughter's death was homicidal or suicidal, and if it was found to be
homicidal, to launch a further investigation and take appropriate action. For some reason, CBI was reluctant to take over the case from the beginning, and in fifteen months of delay in their
findings, the CBI investigation got compromised. It would be an insult to the capabilities of the CBI to say that CBI just failed to conduct a proper investigation. There is no doubt CBI
has all the powers and skills required to get to the bottom of my daughter's death. But somehow, the CBI investigation went off track, for reasons best known to them. Instead,
CBI's own independent forensic expert opinion is inconclusive and does not rule out either homicide or suicide. The CBI simply recycled the already compromised information provided by
the Juhu police, and the worst is, in their own report they deliberately distorted certain information. Anyone looking at the actual facts in this case realises that the case has been
heavily "managed". It is not my task to speculate about the police's and the CBI's motivation, but a connection and the influence of the Accused's father Aditya
Pancholi would not be too far-fetched. The forensic expert Jason Payne-James in his report clearly states that this appears to be a staged homicide. So I approached the Hon'ble High
Court earlier this year with all the relevant grievances and expert reports requesting reinvestigation by an SIT. CBI opposed, but the Hon'ble High Court noted in its order that all the
points raised in my petition can be submitted to the trial court. I submitted my application to the trial court through State-appointed Special Public Prosecutor Dinesh Tiwari who knows the
history of this case from the beginning. Following this submission, CBI has been trying to remove SPP Tiwari and to replace him with one of its own prosecutors who has no knowledge about
the case and has been displaying a hostile attitude towards me. Recently, when my application to submit key evidence and forensic expert reports was argued in the trial court, the CBI, along
with the Accused, strongly opposed their recognition by the court. Now the main point is that if the CBI, who has joined hands with the Accused, is not with the victim and not willing to
cooperate with me, then how is justice going to be served. I am attaching the forensic report by forensic expert Jason Payne-James and a report by Professor Deborah Bonneveld to highlight
what CBI ignored to investigate and denied justice to the victim's family. I fail to write in words my pain and grief. I expect answers to my daughter's death. May God guide you
and help us to get justice. Please let me know what are your plans and advice for the victim's mother and family. I am knocking at every door where each persons voice matters. God has
placed you on high position to help us against injustice. As a parent you will understand my pain. Kind regards, Rabya Khan" Jiah Khan committed suicide on June 3, 2013. Her boyfriend
Sooraj was arrested for abetting her suicide on June 10, 2013, but was released on July 2 the same year after the HC granted him bail. The case was transferred to the CBI by HC in July 2014
on Rabia Khan's petition that police was not probing it properly. However, when the CBI filed a charge sheet in the case and booked Sooraj on abetment charges, Rabia Khan again
petitioned the court seeking a Special Investigation Team to be set up to probe the case afresh. Rabia Khan was against the CBI's concurrence with the findings of Mumbai police that it
was a case of suicide and not homicide. The high court had then dismissed her petition seeking a SIT to be set up. Later, the Maharashtra government appointed advocate Dinesh Tiwari, who had
initially appeared for Rabia Khan, as special public prosecutor in the case. This was challenged by the CBI in the high court which said it would appoint its own counsel. The government had
earlier this month informed the HC that it has withdrawn its order appointing Tiwari as prosecutor in the case.