The Bandra police on Monday filed an affidavit before the Bombay High Court in connection with a case against late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters and a Delhi-based doctor, saying it was duty-bound to file an FIR after having received information on a cognisable offence. They also said that the actor's health might have deteriorated after his sister Priyanka Singh gave him illegally prescribed medicines for anxiety.

The Bandra police were responding to a petition filed by Sushant's sisters to quash the FIR. "Actions of Priyanka Singh and Dr Tarun Kumar in prescribing psychotropic substances without any consultation or examination is in violation of various provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 and Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020. The prescription is also fabricated as it shows Sushant as an OPD patient when on the date and time mentioned, he was in Mumbai, not New Delhi. It is also surprising that Dr Kumar being a cardiologist found it okay to prescribe psychotropic substances to someone he had never met," Bandra police's Senior Police Inspector Nikhil Kapse said in the affidavit.