Heer Patel is a common friend of Rahul Raj Singh and his first wife Saugata Mukherjee.
Leading telly portal Tellychakkar.com quoted Heer as saying, “Even after being married to Saugata, Rahul had numerous affairs. Owing to the nature of her job, Saugata used to visit other cities and Rahul used to get involved into number of flings and affairs. And this is the reason, they parted ways.”
Heer also revealed that Saloni Sharma, the alleged third woman in Rahul and Pratyusha's relationship also threatened his first wife Saugata like she did the Balika Vadhu actress.
On April 1, the 24-year-old actress, who shot to fame for her role as Anandi in hit TV series "Balika Vadhu", allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself inside her flat at Goregoan area of western suburbs.
A case under IPC sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 504, 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC has been registered against Rahul, who is in hospital since Sunday.
According to the doctors attending on him, "he still has suicidal tendencies".Police are also trying to ascertain whether Pratyusha who hailed from Jamshedpur, was in financial trouble or had any dispute with Rahul. Some reports suggested that the actress was depressed over not getting roles in TV serials.
Her parents had alleged that their daughter took the extreme step as she was subjected to torture by Rahul.
A few of Pratyusha's friends, who claimed to have evidence against Rahul, had earlier recorded their statements with the police.
Pratyusha's maid, in her statement, claimed Rahul used to physically and mentally harass the TV actress, police said.