Sooraj Pancholi texted Salman Khan first since Jiah Khan death case verdict, here’s what the superstar replied

Salman Khan produced Sooraj Pancholi's debut film, Hero

Sooraj Pancholi, Salman Khan

Sooraj Pancholi had texted Salman Khan the first thing since Jiah Khan death case verdict on April 28, 2023. For the uninitiated, the actor was acquitted in the case. He had been accused of abetment to her suicide. Sooraj was found not guilty due to lack of evidence.

Salman replied to Sooraj’s text. He wrote, “Sooraj, if you know in your heart that you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about,” Sooraj revealed to Bombay Times.

Salman had given Sooraj an opportunity when no other producer was ready to cast him in movies. The actor was arrested in the case in June 2013 and was released in July 2013 on bail. Salman had produced Sooraj’s first film, Hero, in 2015.

Sooraj further revealed that he knocked down many doors in the decade since becoming an actor. He claimed that corporates and studios didn’t want to work with someone who had travel restrictions and a sword dangling over his head. “They wanted me to have a clean chit first. I feel reborn now and I am ready to work,” the actor said.

Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia Khan had claimed that her daughter was killed and her then-boyfriend Sooraj had abetted her death. She had filed a petition with Bombay High Court that her daughter Jiah Khan did not die of suicide but was instead murdered.

CBI had investigated the case previously, when they found notes which matched Jiah Khan’s handwriting. In the six-page letters, there was a mention of Jiah Khan’s ‘intimate relationship, physical abuse, and mental and physical torture’ allegedly at the hands of Sooraj Pancholi which led her to die by suicide, the central agency said.

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