Bhubaneswar: A day after actress Tunisha Sharma allegedly committed suicide on the sets of a television serial in Vasai in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police have arrested her co-star Sheezan Khan on Sunday.
According to sources, Valiv police registered a case against Sheezan Khan on the basis of a complaint filed by Tunisha’s mother alleging that the TV actor was responsible for her 20-year-old daughter’s suicide. In her complaint, Tunisha’s mother claimed that her daughter was in a relationship with Sheezan and blamed him for her daughter’s extreme step.
The police arrested Sheezan under Indian Penal Code Section 306 (abetment of suicide) and would produce him in the court, a news agency quoted the station house officer of Valiv police station as saying. Her post-mortem was conducted at JJ Hospital on Sunday and there were no injury marks found on her body. Prime facie it appears that she died due to asphyxiation, The Indian Express quoted an official.
Tunisha and Sheezan had earlier worked together in the show Alibaba – Dastaan-e-Kabul. Born in 2002 in Chandigarh, Tunisha had started her acting career at the age of 14. She made her acting debut with the TV show ‘Bharat Ka Veer Putra –Maharana Pratap’. She went on to feature in shows like ‘Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat’, ‘Gabbar Poonchwala’, ‘Sher-e-Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh’, ‘Internet Wala Love’ and ‘Ishq Subhan Allah’.
Tunisha also appeared in small roles in Bollywood films like ‘Fitoor’ (starring Aditya Roy Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Tabu and Lara Dutta), ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ (starring Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina), and ‘Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh’ (starring Vidya Balan and Arjun Rampal).
