Pratyusha suicide: Rahul Raj's former girlfriend Saloni Sharma breaks her silence
Mumbai: Hours after popular television actress Pratyusha Banerjee committed suicide on April 1, Friday, several shocking speculations started making rounds in B-town. Not only was Pratyusha’s boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh’s name all over tabloids and news channels but so was his former girlfriend, Saloni Sharma’s.
The whirlwind of debate that Pratyusha’s suicide caused, took Saloni Sharma along with it. Rahul Raj Singh’s former girlfriend Saloni Sharma got broadly accused for causing a rift between Rahul and Pratyusha. Now after a long time, Saloni has broken her silence over the issue.
In her interview to a daily, Saloni Sharma admits that she did assault Pratyusha and Rahul Raj Singh in February but it was a reaction from her side after the two physically assaulted her.
In her account, Saloni mentions visiting Rahul at his Kandivli flat on 11th February, where he was living with Pratyusha, to ask for her pending money. Upon arriving at the appartment, Pratyusha and Rahul assaulted Saloni before kicking her out of the flat. This led to another episode of outburst below Rahul’s flat, where Saloni humiliated the two before lodging a complaint of ‘assault and cheating’ against Rahul and Pratyusha with the Bangur Nagar police station.
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However, later Rahul and Pratyusha requested Saloni to withdraw the charges against them. To avoid media attention, she was also advised by the Bangur Nagar police officers, who are currently handling Pratyusha’s suicide case, to take her complaint back, upon which, Saloni withdrew her complaint.
In 2011, Saloni came to Mumbai from Kolkata and met Rahul, who had an event management company and wanted Saloni to come on board. Later, the two also launched another company. The two who started out as business partners, later started dating each other. Over the years, Saloni invested over Rs 30 lakh in the business, which included her own earnings and her father’s. After coming face front about Rahul’s relationship with Pratyusha, Saloni and he had a fall out after which she quit the company. Saloni also claims that Rahul hasn't yet paid her the money he owes her.
Saloni also reveals how she called up the police the very next day of Pratyusha’s death to record her statement and provide all kind of help from her side. Rahul’s former girlfriend states that the reason why she kept quiet for so long is because she didn’t want to take advantage of someone’s death to seek publicity. But since people who don’t even know her or have never met her are making absurd comments about her by calling her “that woman", Saloni says she was forced to break her silence on the issue.
Saloni is also in her very right mind to fight back the “baseless allegations” and file defamation cause against those who accused her of driving a rift between Rahul and Pratyusha and leading the latter to her death.
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Saloni also claims that Rahul, who was in a relationship with her for 5 years, started dating Pratyusha Banerjee without her knowledge. She was also unaware about his previous marriage.
Pratyusha Banerjee, better known as Anandi for her role in popular TV serial Balika Vadhu, was found dead in her suburban home on April 1, Friday at around 5 pm. Her body was found hanging from the fan with a dupatta by Pratyusha’s boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh and their cook.
Rahul informed the police and her uncle in Borivali about the death at around 6.30 pm. She was declared dead at Kokilaben Hospital in Andheri (west) late on Friday evening.
Rahul, who was booked by the Bangur Nagar Police for abetting Pratyusha's suicide, got some relief from Bombay High Court on April 12. The High Court, which heard Rahul's pre-arrest bail plea, retrained the police from arresting him on a surety of Rs. 30,000 and directed him to attend the police station everyday till April 18.
After the 24-year-old 'Balika Vadhu' actress allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in her flat in suburban Goregaon on April 1, a case under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 504, 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC was registered against Rahul on April 3 following a complaint lodged by the actress' parents.
