In what appears to be never-ending Sushant Singh Rajput suicide saga, one more piece of evidence in the form of the last video of Sushant’s ex-manager Disha Salian surfaced on Saturday – a video in which she is seen dancing with a group that included her boyfriend and actor Rohan Rai.
Given that Disha was full of life – as can be seen in the video clip, the development has among other things raised questions as to how such a live-wire kind of person could commit suicide.
Disha (28), it may be recalled, had reportedly committed by falling from the 14th floor of Galaxy Regent building at Malad in north Mumbai on the intervening night of June 8-9.
Her death had taken place nearly five weeks before Sushant (34) committed suicide at his rented duplex flat in Bandra in north-west Mumbai on June 14.
The Malvani police station had registered an accidental death report (ADR) in her case. The investigators had virtually closed the case, term it as a “suicide”.
In the video clip that has surfaced, Disha can be seen along with a few others in the video and looking happy. They are seen dancing to the tune of a 'Mission Kashmir' number 'Rind Posh Maal' featuring Hrithik Roshan.
On their part, Disha’s parents Satish and Vasanti Salian had ruled out any foul play in their daughter’ suicide “All theories and stories are fake and just rumours. I lost my only child but now all these media people social media people will murder us. Therefore I request to stop all this. I request the Supreme Court to stop all this, we are badly suffering because of this. Now we don't have any strength to listen to all these fake news against our daughter,” they had told a television channel
However, Disha’s alleged suicide has come to be seen in the context of allegations by the Opposition BJP that it is linked to Sushant’s suicide.
Dubbing the suicides by Disha and Sushant as inter-linked, Maharashtra’s former chief minister and BJP leader Narayan Rane created a sensationon August 4 by claiming that both Sushant was “murdered” while his ex-manager Disha Salian was “raped” and “murdered”.
Addressing a news conference here on Tuesday last, Rane indirectly had targeted Maharashtra Minister and Thackeray scion Aaditya Thackeray, by demanding to know: “Who all were there in the parties that were held on June 8 and June 13? Find them out”. He had suggested that a Maharashtra minister too was in these parties.
“The State government is trying to shield the culprits behind the deaths of Disha and Sushant. We as opposition are efficient and we will let that happen. Parties are held in Dino Morea every day. Many ministers attend these parties. There was a party on that day as well. The same minister had gone to Sushant’s home before the actor’s suicide. The police should investigate that minister concerned,” Rane had alleged.
Rane had alleged that on June 8, Disha Salian was raped and then murdered, while on June 14, Sushant Singh Rajput was murdered. “That Disha Salian was raped was evident from the post-mortem report,” he said.
Alleging that both the incidents were linked, Rane said: “It is not difficult to find out who was issuing threatening calls to Sushant Singh Rajput”.
Two days earlier, Mumbai BJP general secretary and MLA Ameet Satam had raised suspicions over the actor’s ex-manager Disha Salian’s alleged suicide.
In a letter he shot off to Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone --IX) Abhishek Trimukhe, Satam had sought to raise questions about Disha’s death in the context in the context of Sushant’s sensational suicide, by saying that “there are a lot of stories and theories that are being talked about and there is a deep desire in public to know the truth”.
Satam’s letter to DCP Trimukhe came a day after the Bihar police visited the reached the Malwani police station in north Mumbai and sought details about Disha’s death.
The Malwani police told the visiting police team that the folder about Disha’s file had been “deleted by accident” and could not be retrieved. However, there were unconfirmed reports on Sunday that the Malwani police were very much in the possession of the Disha’s death file, but it is not certain yet if they have not handed over the file to their Bihar counterparts.
In one of a series of questions that he asked in his letter to DCP Tirmukhe, Satam had wanted to know to as to what Disha’s post-mortem report say, were the circumstances leading to her suicide probed, considering that she had attended a party the previous night and who were present at the party.
Satam had sought details of her phone calls/messages of the 24 hours preceding her death and asked if the mobile tower location of the place where she died was ascertained as to who all were present and she met before her death.