Bhojpuri actor from Muzaffarpur found hanging in Mumbai

PATNA: A struggling actor, Akshat Utkarsh (26), from Muzaffarpur was found hanging in his rented accommodation at Andheri West in Mumbai on the night intervening Sunday and Monday. His body was brought to Muzaffarpur and cremated on Tuesday.
Akshat’s family members said they would lodge a murder case in Muzaffarpur, like the FIR filed in Patna in Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
Utkarsh’s uncle Vikrant Kishore brought the body by a flight from Mumbai on Tuesday morning. The joint family lives at New Area Sikandarpur under Town police station area in Muzaffarpur.
Vikrant told TOI over phone they would approach Muzaffarpur SSP to get an FIR lodged against three persons, including Akshat’s flatmate Shikha Rajput and his society secretary Kishore Thakkar for hatching a conspiracy to kill him.
“We will lodge a case like in Sushant’s matter,” he said.
Vikrant alleged that Mumbai police neither recorded his statement nor took any written complaint from him even after repeated attempts.
“The police did not call forensic experts. There were injury marks on his eye, scratches on the back and chest and behind neck. He was murdered,” he added.
Vikarant said they preserved Akshat’s fingerprints and took detailed photographs of his body for use in future investigation.
Akshat’s’s father Vijayant Kishore said his son had called at around 8.30pm on Sunday and said he wanted to tell something only on the condition that he would not be scolded. “However, he didn’t share anything and said he would tell on Monday. At midnight, we came to know that my son committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling fan with a towel. Shikha twice changed her statement and later switched off her cellphone,” he said.
He said Akshat had an MBA degree and went to Mumbai for a career in acting in August 2018. “He worked in some TV serials and advertisements. He recently signed a Bhojpuri film ‘Litti-Chokha’ for which he had joined acting classes. Shooting was to commence in Allahabad next month. He had invited his friends for watching the shoot,” he added.