Rabia Khan is a former British actress and writer who worked in Hindi films. She is the mother of British-American actress Jiah Khan, who committed suicide in her Mumbai apartment in June 2013.
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Wiki/Biography
Rabia Khan was born on Sunday, October 9, 1960 (age 62; as of 2022). He hails from Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
A picture from Rabia Khan’s last day in high school
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 2″
Hair color: light brown
Eye color: brown
family
Parents
Rabia Khan was an orphan when she was found by Tahir Hussain, Aamir Khan’s father, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
husband and children
Rabia Khan was married to Indian-American businessman Ali Rizvi Khan. The couple was later blessed with a daughter named Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Rizvi Khan). Ali Rizvi; However, he left Rabia when Jiah Khan was only three months old. Rabia later married Thomas Puppendal and gave birth to two daughters, Karishma Khan and Kavita Khan. According to Jiah Khan, Thomas Pupendale and Rabia separated when Jiah was seven years old. At the end of 1989, Rabia moved to London, United Kingdom with her children.
Rabia Khan with her daughters
Relationships/affairs
According to sources, Rabia Khan was dating Tom Thomas in 2013.
Rabia Khan with Tom Thomas
religion
Rabia Khan was originally a Christian; However, later he accepted Islam.
Career
Beautiful
movie
Rabia made her debut in Hindi cinema with the film ‘Dulha Bikta Hai’ in 1982.
Dulha Bikta Hai (1982) movie poster
In 1985, she appeared in Karm Yudh as Sheela. Rabia worked in many other films including Mary Jung (1985), Geraftaar (1985), Ankush (1986) and Ek Naya Rishta (1988).
Rabia Khan as Lucy in Geraftaar (1985)
writer
After ceasing to appear in films, Rabia began working as a screenwriter for a UK-based television series and as a concept writer for the BBC.
Jiah Khan’s Suicide Case
Jiah Khan committed suicide on 3 June 2013 by hanging from the ceiling fan of her bedroom at her residence Sagar Sangeet Apartment in Juhu, Mumbai. On 7 June 2013, the Mumbai police found a suicide note at Jiah’s residence in which Jiah mentioned the abortion of a child allegedly fathered by Sooraj Pancholi, son of veteran actor Aditya Pancholi. She also expressed her disappointment for not getting the love she expected and deserved from Sooraj. The letter also described the emotional and physical abuse Jiha endured during her relationship with Sooraj.
Jia Khan’s suicide letter (page 1)
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Rabia Khan Claims and Legal Proceedings
Based on the suicide note, Sooraj Pancholi was arrested on 10 June 2013 under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for aiding suicide; However, the Mumbai High Court granted him bail on July 1, 2013, saying that he cannot be held solely responsible for the incident.
July 1, 2013: Sooraj Pancholi with his mother after being released from Arthur Road Jail, Mumbai, on bail in the Jiah Khan suicide case.
Rabia claimed that Jiah’s death was a murder and blamed Sooraj Pancholi for it. He also alleged financial improprieties involving money and jewellery. In an interview, she said that Jiah had given Sooraj Pancholi a substantial amount of money to buy jewelery for her sister’s 21st birthday; However, Sooraj failed to deliver the jewelery and did not inform Jia about the money. Despite apologizing and sending flowers, which Jiah throws away, she confronts Sooraj about the money. Jiah never revealed the outcome of this confrontation. Rabia also revealed that Jiah had shared the biometric lock of her apartment with Sooraj, making her suspicious of Jiah’s death. Sooraj, on the other hand, claimed that Jia was struggling with depression and he repeatedly tried to help her overcome it. He also stated that he informed Rabia about the situation, but she did not take any action, resulting in Jiah’s suicide. On 1 October 2013, Rabia approached the Bombay High Court alleging that her daughter Jiah Khan had been murdered and demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the case. On 2 July 2014, the case was handed over to the CBI, which subsequently filed a chargesheet against Sooraj Fancholi. In 2016, the CBI ruled out any foul play and informed the high court that Jiah Khan’s death was a suicide. Rabia then hired a British forensic expert named Jason Payne James, who claimed that Jia’s death was “staged”. Rabia later filed a complaint in the Bombay High Court requesting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to take up the case; However, the Bombay High Court dismissed his appeal in February 2017.
February 28, 2017: Rabia Khan outside a sessions court in Mumbai
In September 2017, Rabia Khan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking justice. He then approached a special CBI court in Mumbai and filed a complaint for further investigation into the case, which was later dismissed. In 2021, Jiah’s case was transferred to a special CBI court after a sessions court said it lacked jurisdiction following a CBI investigation. In 2022, the Bombay High Court dismissed Rabia’s petition seeking a fresh investigation into the case. On 28 April 2023, a special CBI court in Mumbai acquitted Sooraj Pancholi in the Jiah Khan suicide case due to lack of evidence. In its verdict, the court said that the evidence against Sooraj Pancholi was “vague and general” and that Jia was a “victim of her own feelings”. Special CBI court judge AS Sayyad noted that Jiah had suicidal tendencies that only Sooraj Pancholi knew about. The judge also said that Sooraj could not devote her time to Jiah as she was focused on her acting career and Rabia tried to prove that Jiah did not commit suicide but was murdered, contradicting the prosecution’s case and ultimately undermined her. Sayyid in his jurisdiction said:
In this case, it cannot be ignored that the deceased had suicidal tendencies. He tried to commit suicide earlier and at that time the accused called a doctor. The accused treated her and tried to bring her out of depression. At the relevant time, the accused continued his acting career and could not devote enough time to the deceased. However, on the earlier occasion when she tried to commit suicide, the accused saved her and helped her to get out of depression. Rabia tried to show with her evidence that Jiah never killed himself and it was the accused (Pancholi) who killed him. However, this is not the case of the prosecutor’s office. When the prosecution’s case was about suicide, Rabia claimed that it was murder. By giving such openly contradictory evidence, the appellant has himself destroyed the prosecution’s case.”
After the court’s verdict in the Jiah Khan murder case, Rabia Khan said that Sooraj Pancholi is not guilty of aiding suicide, but aiding and abetting murder. Reacting to the verdict in an interview, Rabia decided to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. She said,
The charge of suicide was dropped. But how did my son die? This is a case of murder… going to the High Court. The verdict is presumed suicide, but I have always maintained that Jiah was murdered. It actually strengthens my case.”
Facts/Trivia
- He also goes by the names ‘Rabiya Khan’, ‘Rabiya Amin’, ‘Rabiya Amin’, ‘Rabiya Amin Khan’ and ‘Rabiya Amin’.
- Rabia aspired to become an actress, for which she decided to move from Agra to Mumbai.
- After moving to Mumbai, she acquired acting skills and learned Urdu from Zeenat Hussain while living at home.
- Rabia called Jia “babe”, “baby”, “grandma” and “snow baby”.
- She used her connections to land the role of sixteen-year-old Jia in Bollywood; However, Jiah’s major breakthrough came in 2007 when she starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Nishabd, a Bollywood adaptation of American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film Lolita, which was inspired by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel.
- In an interview, Jiah Khan revealed that when her stepfather, Thomas Puppendall, left the family, he took their savings and took ownership of their house. Consequently, Rabia and her three daughters had to live in a rented house in London, United Kingdom, on a shoestring budget. Jiah also shared that for a while they depended on McDonald’s burgers as their main source of livelihood.
- Aamir Khan was reportedly once referred to as Jiah Khan’s stepfather; However, in an interview, he clarified that although Rabia was one of his close friends, he never married her and Jia was not his daughter.
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