August 12, 2020: A Bihar MLA and close relative of Sushant Singh Rajput, Neeraj Kumar Bablu has sent a legal notice to Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday, threatening action over a piece written by him in the party mouthpiece about the late actor's strained relations with his father, his lawyer said.

Neeraj Kumar Bablu has demanded a public apology from Raut within 48 hours, failing which legal action will be taken against him.

As per reports, recently, Raut made some unsavoury comments about Sushant’s family in the party’s newspaper Saamana, of which he is the Executive Editor. Raut claimed that Sushant had a strained relationship with his father KK Singh, over the latter’s second marriage. The family has called these comments defamatory and denied the news of Singh remarrying after the death of Sushant’s mother.

Sushant’s uncle, RC Singh said, “Sanjay Raut has given a wrong statement at the behest of Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray. Sanjay Raut is trying to tarnish his image by saying such a thing. It is not a good thing to spoil someone’s image by saying such a thing.”

“It is true, how many times did Sushant go to Patna to meet his father? I have sympathy for his father but there are many things that will come to surface,” Raut had written in Saamana.

Sushant was found dead at his Bandra home on June 14. The case was being investigated by the Mumbai Police but the Bihar Police launched a separate probe after Singh filed an FIR against Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and others in Patna, alleging abetment to suicide. After a turf war between the two police forces, the probe has now been taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation.