Rhea Chakraborty: How the media trial of a Bollywood actress blew up in smoke

She was called "a gold digger" and "a murderer" after the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput.

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Now, India's federal investigators have told a court that Rajput, a rising star in India's popular Hindi film industry, died by suicide and that neither Chakraborty nor her family had a role in his death.

In a statement shared with the BBC, senior lawyer Satish Maneshinde, who fought Chakraborty's case, said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had "thoroughly investigated every aspect of the case from all angles and closed it".

The findings have been presented in a special court in Mumbai, which will now decide whether to close the case or to order further investigation.

Mr Maneshinde said Chakraborty went through "untold miseries" and was jailed "for no fault of hers".