Mumbai, Jun 4 (Mid-day): Sooraj Pancholi's lawyer says he has accessed a mail sent to the Mumbai Police last year, which claims that Rabia Khan had trumped up rape charges against a UK resident and had said to authorities that her daughter had attempted suicide thrice.

On Jiah Khan's third death anniversary yesterday, a new twist to the case emerged. Actor Sooraj Pancholi, accused of abetting the actress' suicide, has written to the CBI, the Mumbai commissioner of police and the Juhu police station, claiming that he has come across additional evidence that could prove that the allegations of Rabia Khan, Jiah's mother, are trumped up.

The letter, sent through Pancholi's lawyer, Prashant Patil, on June 1, cites a mail, dated February 10, 2015, sent to the Mumbai police commissioner by a UK citizen, "Mr Bloom", claiming that Rabia had falsely accused a London resident of raping her daughter a few years ago, and that the actress had suicidal tendencies.

A source said, "The mail states that the allegations [of rape and murder] levelled by Rabia have no truth in them. In fact, she is in it only to extort money. The mail also states that Jiah tried to kill herself on a couple of occasions. The evidence from a trial at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales) in London and her doctors' records are also available in London. Apart from this, the mail states that a few years ago, Rabia fabricated a rape and sexual abuse charge against a man in London."