Mumbai, Sep 20 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Sunday that the death of celebrity manager Disha Salian was unfortunate, but her father Satish Salian’s bid to hand over a defamation notice to Aaditya Thackeray was an attempt to gain publicity.
Talking to reporters, Raut said the Sena (UBT) is pained over the loss of life of Disha Salian.
“It was an unfortunate incident. It is the misfortune of that girl that her father created a scene. That’s not pain,” said Raut.
Satish Salian on Saturday visited Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray’s residence ‘Matoshri’ here to hand over a Rs 500-crore defamation notice to his son and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray.
Referring to the CBI probe, Raut said the court has given some instructions, and those should be followed.
“It is very cheap the way you came to Matoshri for publicity,” Raut said.
He claimed the Sena (UBT) is well aware of who is behind all this.
This is happening because of “some drunkard with a Nepal connection”, he said without elaborating.
Satish Salian had alleged on Saturday that MLA Aaditya Thackeray had defamed him. The CBI recently registered an FIR in connection with Disha Salian’s death in 2020.
Aaditya Thackeray categorically stated earlier this week that he had no connection with the Salian death case and had never met her. Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday warned that he would take legal action if the “character assassination” campaign targeting his family case did not stop.
Earlier, Raut had claimed that Satish Salian was being “controlled” by somebody.
Disha, 28, who had briefly worked as actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s manager, died on June 8, 2020, after falling from the 12th floor of a residential building in Mumbai’s Malad area.
A week later, Rajput was found dead in his Bandra apartment on June 14, 2020, triggering speculation about a possible link between the two deaths.
The city police had registered an accidental death report (ADR) and subsequently claimed, after an inquiry, that Disha died by suicide.
The CBI recently registered an FIR in connection with the death of Disha Salian after the case was handed over to the central probe agency by the Bombay High Court with a clear instruction not to name anyone as an accused.
On September 2, the High Court ordered a CBI probe into Salian’s death while pulling up the Mumbai Police for failing to register an FIR for six years, observing that its investigation “raises more questions than answers”. PTI PR NR
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