Aditya Pancholi's son Sooraj Pancholi face 'abetment to suicide' charge for the suicide case of actress Jiah Khan in 2013. Session court in Mumbai announced the charges against the 27-year-old actor, to which he pleads not guilty.

Sooraj's lawyer Prashant Patil said, "Sooraj pleaded innocence and the examination of witnesses will start from February 14,". As per the charge-sheet, Jiah Khan was found dead hanging at her apartment on June 3, 2013. Her mother Rabiya claims that she had left the house of Sooraj Pancholi, where she had been staying for the last two days. CBI has a take on the case and according to them, Sooraj Pancholi had "hidden facts and fabricated information" during questioning.

CBI was handed a three-page note by the Mumbai Police, which elaborates the case. Letter written by Jiah Khan narrates "intimate relationship, physical abuse and mental and physical torture" allegedly at the hands of Sooraj Pancholi which led her to commit suicide.

The alleged claim that the letter was not signed and even did not address Sooraj Pancholi but it defamed him. On October 2013, Rabiya Khan appealed her plea to the Bombay High Court alleging that her daughter had been murdered and demanded for a CBI investigation, which was granted.