Year after the death of Sridevi, Kerala DGP quotes dead friend for the assassination of an actress
Over a year, Sridevi's superstar breathed her last. On February 24, 2018, the actress died as a result of accidental drowning in a bathtub. Her death deeply shocked her fans and a whole nation. The delay also led to several conspiracy theories in expatriating her body from the UAE.
While most of them were forgotten shortly after the last rites of Sridevi, a new claim by Kerala Police Director (Prisons) Rishiraj Singh is introducing an angle of foul play. Singh, in a column for the Kerala Kaumudi newspaper, wrote that the death of Sridevi could not have been caused by drowning. Singh attributes his claims to a conversation that he had 'out of curiosity' with his friend, forensic expert Dr. Umadathan. To confirm this, this friend, Dr. Umadathan, is not alive. "My friend and late forensic expert Dr. Umadathan had told me for a long time that the death of Sridevi might have been a murder rather than an accidental death.
He told me that when I asked him about the death of Sridevi, out of curiosity," Singh wrote.
"He also pointed out some facts to support his claims. According to him, a person will never drown in one-foot deep water, however much he drinks. He will drown only if someone holds his two legs and sinks his head into the water," the IPS officer wrote. However, these facts were analyzed ad nauseam and there is no way to be sure of them. Following the news of last year's untimely death of Sridevi, several people came up with their own theories about how their death could not have been an accident.
From Subramanian Swamy, who claimed that Sridevi 'did not drink hard liquor' to former Delhi ACP Ved Bhushan, who claimed that the death of Sridevi was murder rather than an accidental drowning, Sridevi's death was a topic that everyone was weighing in on. When she breathed her last, the superstar was in UAE attending a family wedding. The UAE authorities' post-mortem confirmed drowning as the cause of death. That should have ended all speculation, but then she was a superstar who had returned with a bang to the cinema, and even after a year of her demise, fans are not letting go.