Bombay HC Directs Placement Of Disha Salian's Father's Plea Before Appropriate Bench

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked its registry department to place before the appropriate bench the petition filed by father of Disha Salian seeking a probe into the mysterious circumstances under which she was found dead in June 2020. Salian was the manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. 

The petition came up for hearing before a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale. 

Advocates Ghanshyam Upadhyay and Nilesh Ojha, representing Salian, informed the petition pertains to crime against women and the assignment pertains to the division bench headed by Justice Sarang Kotwal.

The court then directed the HC’s registry department to take steps to place the petition before that bench.

Satish Salian has urged registration of an FIR against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray and sought that the case be handed over to the CBI. 

About The Plea

The plea alleges that Disha Salian was “brutally raped, murdered, and subjected to a politically orchestrated cover-up”. The petition claimed it seeks to expose the web of lies, corruption, and suppression of facts behind the murder, only to protect certain influential persons. “The Mumbai police hastily closed the case as a suicide or accidental death, without taking into account forensic evidence, circumstantial proof, and eyewitness testimonies,” the plea added.  

Justifying the delay in filing the petition, Salian said after his daughter’s death, he was “overwhelmed with grief, was systematically misled and manipulated by key figures who orchestrated a false narrative to protect the accused”.

Apart from naming Aaditya Thackeray, the petition names a few actors who were present at the party, which was initially only meant to be a private affair comprising Disha’s friends. 

About The Case

Disha died on June 8, 2020, after falling off the 14th floor of a residential building in suburban Malad. Rajput was found dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14, the same year. While the city police initially said it was a case of suicide, the CBI was handed over the probe in the case later.