Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday rejected a legal notice from Satish Salian, father of talent manager Disha Salian who died in 2020 after a fall from a residential building in Mumbai, in which Satish sought Rs 500 crore in damages for alleged defamation by his two posts on X.
Aaditya Thackeray said he will not delete the posts, apologise, or pay any compensation as he was being connected to the case without any evidence anyway.
Thackeray has now cited a complaint Satish Salian made to the President of India on March 25, 2022, and an FIR of 2022, which Disha Salian’s mother registered at Malvani police station, that spoke about Disha having been in depression “on account of certain financial losses”. Ojha said Salian has sought immediate action, including arrest, against Thackeray, former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and other police officers and witnesses.
The case was initially seen as an accidental death or suicide — with no connection to Sushant Rajput’s death by suicide a week later — but recently a case of murder was registered by the CBI on court orders, on a petition by Satish Salian. Disha Salian, 28, a former manager of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, died after falling from a building in Malad on June 8, 2020.
This came on a day that Satish Salian doubled down and said he would share “evidence” with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “The posts do not name [Satish Salian]”, said the reply, sent through his counsel Anshuman Sinha to Salian’s lawyer Anushka Sonawane. It further said the notice failed to identify any such sentence, expression or imputation to Salian. It argued that the notice sought to build an impression by combining the posts with “the complaint, the writ proceedings, media reports and surrounding political events”. The reply repeated “never met or known Disha Salian” and cited another line, “Let the official re-investigation proceed. On the recent proceedings in the Bombay High Court, which ordered registration of an FIR and a CBI investigation, Aaditya Thackeray’s reply said there was “no adverse finding” against anyone and that “nobody shall be treated as an accused”.
