YouTuber claims authorities 'covered-up' facts over Sridevi's death, CBI files case against her

Sridevi’s death shocked the entire nation and the investigation in the case revealed that the beloved actor passed away due to a heart attack. Now, a YouTuber has landed in trouble for claiming that the Indian and UAE governments ‘covered-up’ facts over the actor’s death.

A chargesheet has been filed against the YouTuber and her lawyer after CBI received a complaint from a Mumbai-based lawyer Chandni Shah. According to the complaint, the YouTuber has deceptively produced records from the UAE government.

The lawyer complained, "The suspect Deepti Rani Pinniti has time and again maligned the image of the present government by bizarrely accusing the government as the sponsor of the death of Sridevi..."

CBI submitted a report to a special court, saying that the YouTuber's house was raided in December and her phones and laptops were seized. The investigation revealed that the documents she produced during her live session about the prime minister and defense minister were ‘forged’.

A charge sheet was filed against her under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code, including for criminal conspiracy.

The YouTuber has reacted to this and told PTI, "When the letters in question are incriminating against the very authorities under whom the CBI comes, CBI becomes a party of conflict to be the entity to collect evidence.”

Sridevi died in 2018 at the age of 54.