Actor Sooraj Pancholi has moved an application before the special CBI court in Mumbai, though his lawyer Prashant Patil, stating that Jiah’s mother Rabia Khan is trying to delay the trial of Jia Khan’s murder case.

The application seeks that the court should issue a non-bailable warrant against Rabia Khan. According to Pancholi, Rabia is intentionally not appearing before the Special CBI Court and trying to delay the trial.

The application states, “The prosecution has served summons to the original complainant several times, but she is not appearing before this court to depose her statement. The original complainant doesn’t seem to be cooperating with this court for an expeditious trial and avoiding coming before this court to delay the trial.”

Special CBI judge AS Sayyad has asked the CBI to file a reply to the application by Pancholi. The case will be further heard on July 7.

The court has been summoning Rabia since February 2022 to depose her statement. So far, she has filed two replies stating why she could not come to Mumbai from London to depose. Once, she said that her internet was not working and another time she said that her home was flooded.

The case- In 2013, Jiah khan was found hanging dead at her residence and her then boyfriend, Sooraj Pancholi, was arrested by Juhu police for abettment of suicide. Jiah’s mother, Rabia, approached Bombay High Court asking for an investigation by the CBI. The court transferred the case to CBI, who concluded that it was a case of suicide. Rabia again approached the Bombay High Court for the case to be transferred to SIT. However, the court did not agree and the case was set to begin.