The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Wednesday (September 2) ordered CBI investigation within the dying of Disha Salian, former supervisor of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who died in alleged mysterious circumstances by falling from the 14th flooring of a high-rise in suburban Malad in June 2020.
A division bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal and Justice Ranjitsinha Bhonsale, whereas coping with a petition filed by her father Satish Salian, ordered the CBI to nominate a senior and an skilled officer to hold out the investigation within the case.
It nonetheless cautioned that nobody must be handled as an accused until the Investigating Officer finds adequate materials in opposition to any individual.
The judges additional ordered the IO to file the chargesheet within the case as early as doable, offered, a cognisable offence is made out. If no cognisable offence is made, the judges have ordered the I.O to file applicable closure proceedings earlier than the competent court docket and has granted Disha’s father the freedom to file a protest petition.
Notably, Satish had final 12 months petitioned the Excessive Court docket searching for registration of First Info Report (FIR) over the sudden dying of his daughter, who he claimed was subjected to gang rape and then murdered.
The Mumbai Police has nonetheless maintained that Disha died after falling from the high-rise.
An in depth copy of the order is but to be made obtainable.
Advocate Nilesh Ojha showing for Satish argued that Mumbai Police didn’t share even the put up mortem report of Disha along with her father and the identical was shared solely after 5 years of him approaching the Excessive Court docket. He additionally raised questions over why the police didn’t file any FIR in opposition to Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Aditya Thackeray and others, whose names the daddy gave.
Then again, the Maharashtra Authorities by way of the Mumbai Police maintained that there was no proof it got here throughout, to prosecute anybody in Disha’s dying case. Chief Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray argued that the identical indicated that Disha dedicated suicide or unintentionally fell from the stated constructing.
Hiray questioned as to why Satish didn’t increase suspicion over anybody particularly when he and his spouse – each, bought their statements recorded, greater than as soon as, by the police.
Based mostly on this proof, the daddy now raised suspicion over his daughter’s dying and thus, the Police was sure by the Lalita Kumari judgment and lodge a FIR.
The plea was vehemently opposed by senior advocate Sudeep Pasbola, who argued on behalf of Thackeray that the moment proceedings had been politically motivated.
Throughout the listening to, the judges had orally noticed that the allegations made by the daddy might be appropriate or false however the police ought to have lodged an FIR and given a ultimate closure to the household over their daughter’s dying, particularly in view of the truth that the police continued enquiring into the ADR for practically 5 to 6 years.
Nevertheless, Hiray clarified that the ADR was closed in October 2020 itself and was reopened solely after the newly shaped authorities within the State, took word of a number of allegations being made on social media in regards to the method during which the preliminary probe was carried out. He additional clarified that even within the additional enquiry no robust proof was discovered to prosecute anybody for homicide cost.
Case Title: Satish Salian vs State of Maharashtra (Writ Petition 1612 of 2025)
