Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has filed an application before the Bombay High Court seeking permission to intervene in a petition filed by Disha Salian’s father, who has sought registration of an FIR against him.
Satish Salian filed the petition earlier this year, seeking a probe into the mysterious circumstances under which Disha was found dead in June 2020. Disha was the manager of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The plea alleges that Disha Salian was “brutally raped, murdered, and subjected to a politically orchestrated cover-up.” It claims to seek the exposure of a web of lies, corruption, and suppression of facts behind the murder, allegedly to protect certain influential persons.
Application by Thackeray, who is not named as a respondent in the petition, states that he should be given an opportunity to be heard, as he would be “adversely affected” if any orders are passed in a “false, frivolous, and motivated litigation filed by the petitioner to settle a grudge, personal and political vendetta.”
Moreover, the application contends that the case has been thoroughly probed by various investigating agencies. The Supreme Court of India had taken cognisance of the issue on Salian’s petition and directed the CBI to investigate the case. In addition, an “impartial” investigation is being undertaken by the state-appointed Special Investigation Team.
It highlights that Thackeray hails from a respectable family and that there have been a series of attempts in the recent past to defame him and his family members.
On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Rajesh Patil questioned the state government as to why a reply affidavit was filed by a senior police inspector instead of the Chief Secretary, as directed by the court on April 30.
Disha died on June 8, 2020, after falling from 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 later handed over the probe. The High Court has kept the matter for hearing on July 16.
