Rhea Chakraborty Says 80 Per Cent Women In Prison With Her Were Innocent: 'Justice System Takes Long' | Viral
Rhea Chakraborty opened up about spending 27 days in jail.
Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik Chakraborty, and their family have been officially cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput. However, back in 2020, Rhea Chakraborty and her brother were even arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over a drug-related case linked to Sushant’s death. Last year, Rhea opened up about spending 27 days in jail during a conversation with Humans of Bombay.
When asked what jail is like, Rhea said, “Jail is actually a very different world because there are no… there’s no society in jail. There is a weird sense of equality. Everyone is like a number, like they’re not a person you’re a UT number- when you’re in the under trial prison- and I would like to believe that in most of the undertrial women’s prisons at least, from what I experienced where I was, 70-80% of them are innocent. The 20% who’ve done it are to saying I did it in self-defence or like this happened or that happened…"
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The actress said, “The justice system takes a long time so they spend more time than their actual term had they got convicted, but they haven’t even gotten convicted and they are just in there. Some for 7 years and 8 years and 9 years and 10 years. So there’s no phone, there’s no contact with the outside world. Most of them have even lost one or two family members who would support them because of the fact that they are now in jail."
She said, “It’s a very sort of a strange world. It’s a very evolved crowd because it’s just human emotion and it’s basic rawest and it’s survival right? You have to survive each day. Each day feels like a year like it takes a long time for a day to finish because you’re literally doing nothing. My time in there was really difficult in the first two to kind of adjust to this situation because no one ever believes that they’re going to jail… There is a deep depression and a darkness that I obviously experienced."
Rhea and her family now have a clean chit in the case. It has been concluded there was no evidence of foul play in Rajput’s tragic death in his Mumbai apartment in 2020. The case has now been called a ‘simple case of suicide’.
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