Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday denied any link to the death of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s ex-manager Disha Salian, two days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) named him in its FIR in the case from 2020.
The CBI registered the FIR on Monday under sections of law pertaining to murder as well as criminal conspiracy, among others, officials said. This came on a Bombay High Court order after Disha Salian’s father, Satish Salian, filed a petition alleging lapses by Mumbai Police in the investigation. In it, he alleged that several people, including Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray, played a significant role in an alleged conspiracy and cover-up. The court pulled up the police for failing to register an FIR for six years. The court also noted that Salian’s family had not been given copies of the post-mortem report and the Accidental Death Report (ADR) six years after her death. Rajput was found dead at his Bandra flat days later.
Salian was found dead on June 8, 2020, after falling from the 14th floor of a residential building in Mumbai’s Malad area.
It said the investigation “raises more questions than answers” and pointed to “glaring discrepancies”. Police registered an ADR and, after an inquiry, said Salian died by suicide. A statement purportedly recorded from a police constable on duty at Shatabdi Hospital, where Salian was declared dead, says she was brought in by “two boys and a girl” . The Bombay High Court’s order refers to a supplementary statement by Salian’s fiancé, Rohan Rai, which says her friends Himanshu Shikhare and Indraneel Vaidya took her to hospital.
He recorded his statement before the CBI. Satish Salian filed a petition in the High Court last year alleging that his daughter was gang-raped and murdered.
“Let the official re-investigation proceed without malicious distractions and character assassination for political motives,” Aaditya Thackeray said on the 2020 death of Sushant Rajput’s ex-manager.
“Let the official re-investigation proceed without malicious distractions and character assassination for political motives,” Aaditya Thackeray added. The FIR lists Aaditya Thackeray, actors Dino Morea, Sooraj Pancholi and Rhea Chakraborty , and the doctors and staff concerned with the delayed post-mortem among “people whose roles require investigation”.
