No foul play in death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager: Police tell Bombay HC

The Mumbai Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that there was no foul play in the death of Disha Salian, the former manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, The Indian Express reported.

Disha Salian had allegedly died by suicide on June 8, 2020, after jumping from the 14th floor of a building in Mumbai’s Malad area. Six days later, Rajput was found dead at his residence. The police had closed the case in 2021 and said that no evidence of foul play had been found in her death.

However, the celebrity manager’s father, Satish Salian, moved the Bombay High Court in March seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into her death and the filing of a first information report against Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Aaditya Thackeray, PTI reported.

Claiming that his daughter had died under suspicious circumstances, Satish Salian in his petition alleged that she was gangraped and murdered. He claimed that there had also been a politically-driven cover-up to shield “influential persons”.

Satish Salian said that he initially believed that the investigation was “genuine, but later found it to be a cover-up”, The Indian Express reported.

His petition came up for hearing on Wednesday before a bench headed by Justice AS Gadkari, PTI reported.

In an affidavit seeking the dismissal of the petition, an officer...

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