Tunisha Sharma is taken to the hospital by Sheezan Khan and two other people
New Delhi:
CCTV footage has emerged showing actor Sheezan Khan and two others carrying his co-actor Tunisha Sharma to a hospital in Naigaon, Maharashtra.
TV actor Tunisha Sharma reportedly died by suicide on the set of Maharashtra’s Palghar. Sheezan Khan has been arrested for allegedly assisting in suicide. Both were in a relationship. They split 15 days before Tunisha Sharma’s death last week.
In the CCTV video, Tunisha Sharma is seen being hastily carried up a flight of stairs by a man while Sheezan Khan and a woman walk beside him.
The CCTV footage reportedly came from a hospital where Tunisha Sharma was taken from the sets.
Surendra Pal, the doctor at Naigaon Hospital, said the people on the set took her to the hospital. Mr Pal said she was dead when they examined her.
“Those who brought her from the sets said they shot when she locked herself in a room. People knocked on the door, but it didn’t open. You had to break down the door to enter. They found her hanged, whereupon they took her down and brought her here,” Mr Pal said.
Sheezan Khan has claimed Tunisha Sharma also attempted suicide days before she was found hanged on set.
“Tunisha had tried to commit suicide just before she died, but at the time I saved her and told Tunisha’s mother to take extra care of her,” a police source quoting Sheezan Khan told ANI news agency.
The actor told police he broke up with Tunisha Sharma after he was “so disturbed by the atmosphere in the country created after the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar,” allegedly by her local partner Aaftab Poonawala, ANI reported.
Right-wing groups have claimed “love jihad” in the macabre Shraddha Walkar murder case, which they claim is the act of Muslim men enticing Hindu women to convert.
However, Tunisha Sharma’s uncle Pawan Sharma told NDTV yesterday that learning that Sheezan Khan was with other women caused her great stress. “They both ate in the makeup room. Nobody knows what happened after that. We got a call asking us to come in,” Pawan Sharma told NDTV.
He denied Sheezan Khan’s claim that Tunisha Sharma attempted suicide in the two weeks before she was found dead on set. “Never, never. She never tried to commit suicide,” her uncle told NDTV. “She was under a lot of stress. That’s why her mother was worried about her,” said Pawan Sharma.