Investigators tied Jiah Khan's boyfriend to the case of the Bollywood actress' suicide earlier in the month, but his ex-girlfriend defended him saying she does not know him as being the violent or abusive type.

Khan killed herself on June 3. In her six-page suicide note she talked about their troubled relationship with Pancholi, claiming that he abused her mentally and physically. She also wrote about having an abortion with his child, later confirmed by medical records. Pancholi was the last to speak to Khan before she committed suicide, officials confirmed earlier in June.

Pancholi is son of Bollywood actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab.

Sooraj ex-girlfriend, Janvi Turakhia, commented recently on his attachment to Khan's suicide case, saying she never found her boyfriend of five years abusive. Turakhia said she was shocked to hear the claims made against him of abetting Khan's suicide, according to Zee News. She said that all the allegations are false and that he is being framed.

"Whatever I am reading and hearing in the papers and TV, it is like they are talking about another person altogether," she said. "Of course my heart goes out to Jiah's family. But I can't believe a word of what they are saying about Sooraj! This Sooraj, who is supposed to have done these awful things to that poor girl, is not the Sooraj I know."

Turakhia added that "my Sooraj" is not capable of being violent against anyone, saying he hates confrontation and whenever the former couple fought, she was the "more aggressive" one.

"If he's angry or upset he likes to be on his own to work his way out of the problem," she said.

When asked if Sooraj ever mistreated her physically, Turakhia said, "No! Never! Do you think I'd have been with him for nearly six years if he ever did anything like that?"

"When I read the news accusing him of physical abuse and what-not, I was too shocked for words. Sooraj can never behave like this. If he was that guy, I would have seen that side of him at least once in all those years we were together."

Continuing to defend her claims, Turakhia said no girl knows Sooraj better than her and that it is "impossible" to dislike him. After they broke up they stayed friends, with their families remaining close and her mother "lov[ing] Sooraj like her own son." His biggest weakness, she said, was his " over-emotional nature."

"He gets upset by any hint of unpleasantness. To inflict pain or violence is unthinkable for him," Turakhia said. "He is one of the most soft-hearted souls I know. He not only treats his parents, sister and close friends with utmost love and affection, he treats even his domestic help, staff and driver like family."

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