Thane Court Grants Bail To Sheezan Khan In Tunisha Sharma Suicide Case

A Sessions Court in Vasai has granted bail to actor Sheezan Khan, who was earlier arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of his former partner and television action Tunisha Sharma.

Additional Sessions Judge RD Deshpande allowed Khan’s bail application on execution of PR bond of Rs. 1 lakh. Khan was arrested on December 25 and booked under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.

A copy of the order is yet to be uploaded. Khan’s main ground for bail was filing of the charge sheet and completion of the investigation against him.

Twenty-one-year-old Sharma, who had acted in the TV show ‘Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul’ along with Khan, was found hanging in the washroom on the set of a Hindi serial near Vasai, located on the outskirts of Mumbai, on December 24, 2022.

Sharma was in a relationship with Khan, but the couple weren’t together anymore when the incident took place. Khan was arrested the next day on charges of abetment and is currently lodged in Thane Central Jail, under judicial custody.

Khan has filed a petition in the high court, to quash the case against him. Khan, in his plea, said that to ‘enter into a relationship and break-up are normal facets of life, and if two persons in such a relationship terminate, then the mere fact that the other person commits suicide does not justify the offence registered under IPC Section 306 with its consequences of arrest and custody’.

Therefore, he cannot be held responsible for Sharma’s death, the plea stated.

He has argued that the ‘factual narrative of the prosecution and informant (Sharma’s mother) do not fit the legal parameters necessary to attract the charge’. He also has claimed that there was nothing to show ‘he had done any act with specific intention, of compelling Sharma to die by suicide’.