MUMBAI: With CBI filing an FIR in the 2020 Disha Salian death case, its investigators are expected to first scrutinise documents and allegations, record statements including of police personnel who handled the initial inquiry, examine the scene and key witnesses, and carry out technical analysis before identifying suspects for questioning.Disha, who worked as actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s manager, was found dead on June 8, 2020, after falling from the 14th floor of a residential building in Mumbai. A week later, Sushant was found dead at his Bandra flat. Citing “suspicious circumstances,” her father petitioned the high court seeking a murder probe. Satish Salian recorded his statement before CBI last week, and it was converted into the FIR on Sept 13.
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A CBI official said the FIR was registered pursuant to the court’s direction and no accused have been named at this stage, adding that names would be included if involvement is established during the probe.The FIR alleges that some public servants and police officers need to be investigated for destruction or suppression of case papers, files and other public records, fabrication of official records, and misuse of public funds, manpower and police machinery for unlawful purposes and for shielding the offenders. It also calls for the questioning of the autopsy and forensic officials besides several others, including the building’s security guards.The FIR claims: “The persons whose roles require investigation in connection with the commission of the principal offences, criminal conspiracy, subsequent creation and propagation of the false suicide story, and suppression, destruction and/or fabrication of evidence include Aaditya Thackeray, Rohan Roy, Dino Morea, Sooraj Pancholi, Aaditya Thackeray’s bodyguards, Rhea Chakraborty, Showik Chakraborty, Sachin Vaze, Param Bir Singh, DCP Vishal Thakur, Uddhav Thackeray, Anil Deshmukh, API Ashok Devadhe, PI Jagdev Kalapad, PI Shailendra Nagarkar, PI Chimaji Adhav, PI Arjun Rajane, concerned officers of Malvani Police Station”.Satish Salian’s advocate Nilesh Ojha had alleged that Disha had information about Aaditya Thackeray’s illegal activities, shared it with Sushant Singh Rajput, who discussed it with Rhea Chakraborty, and that it was then passed to Aaditya Thackeray, after which the alleged offence and cover-up took place.With Salian alleging lapses, the high court pulled up Mumbai police for not filing an FIR in the last six years and pointed to “glaring discrepancies” in the probe. It observed that the police probe “raised more questions than answers.”The high court had also taken note of the fact that the post-mortem report or the accidental death report had not been given to Disha’s family. On Sept 2, ordering a CBI probe, the court directed the agency that no one should be named as accused unless there was evidence against them.
