Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will hear on April 30, the petition filed by father of Disha Salian, Satish 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.
Earlier, on April 2, the petition was listed for hearing before a bench headed by Justice Revati Mohite-Dere when the Salian’s advocates informed that the petition pertains to crime against women and the assignment pertains to the division bench headed by Justice Sarang Kotwal.
Justice Dere then asked the registry to place it before the appropriate bench. The plea will now be heard by a bench headed by Justice Sarang Kotwal on April 30.
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”.
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 probe in the case later.
