A Mumbai court deferred the hearing of Suraj Pancholi's bail plea in connection to the suicide of his girlfriend and Bollywood star Jiah Khan, but his father said extended jail time will serve his son good use. 

Pancholi was held on the charge of abetting Khan's suicide and his hearing was postponed to June 21. His father, actor Aditya Pancholi, said his son is not guilty and that the jail experience will only make him stronger.

"Let my son stay in jail a little longer. It will make him tougher and wiser. He has done no wrong. So, this experience can only make him strong," Aditya said, according to Daily News & Analysis.

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Khan committed suicide at her residence in Mumbai's Juhu area June 3. She was 25. On June 8 police recovered a six-page suicide letter written by the actress in which she talked about her troubled relationship with her boyfriend while claiming that he abused her mentally and physically. On June 11, Mumbai police arrested Suraj in connection with Khan's suicide.

"There was a time I saw my life with you, a future with you. But you shattered my dreams. I feel dead inside," Khan wrote in her suicide note.

She also addressed Suraj in the parts of her letter when she revealed that she had an abortion, later confirmed by medical records obtained by authorities. Khan reportedly wrote in her note, "I was scared of getting pregnant but I gave myself completely the pain you have caused me everyday has destroyed every bit of me, destroyed my soul,"  

A friend of the couple said the image portrayed by the press of Suraj being a raging troubled star-son is not quite who he really is.

"The story about Suraj suffering from fits of rage is highly exaggerated. When Suraj gets angry, he goes completely quiet. Suraj is completely his mama's boy," the friend, who went unnamed, said. "He has grown up with his grandmother, far away from his father. So Suraj has never been a witness to his father's wayward ways.

"This whole run-in with the law is totally unexpected...But he's also a strong chap," the friend added. "When he sees his parents, he comforts them and assures them all would be well, rather than the parents comforting him."

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