Bombay High Court questions Mumbai Police over Disha Salian death probe, asks why no FIR was filed

The Bombay High Court on Monday questioned the Mumbai Police over its handling of the death of former celebrity manager Disha Salian asking what prevented investigators from registering an FIR after her father raised suspicion over the circumstances surrounding her death in 2020A bench of Justices Bharti Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande also questioned how according to the postmortem report the victim allegedly had no injuries despite falling from the 14th floor of a residential buildingDisha Salian died on June 8 2020 after falling from the 14th floor of a residential building in Mumbais Malad area The city police subsequently registered an Accidental Death Report ADRAfter conducting an inquiry the police concluded that she had died by suicide However her father Satish Salian filed a petition before the Bombay High Court last year alleging that his daughter was gangraped and murderedWhen the matter came up for hearing on Monday the court asked the police why no FIR had been registered instead of treating the case as an accidental death inquiryIf somebody in this case the victims father raises suspicion about the circumstances in which the death occurred what stopped the police from registering an FIR and investigating it the bench askedPublic Prosecutor Shishir Hiray told the court that the case had been treated as an accidental death from the outset and that inquiries had been conducted twice On both occasions the police concluded that it was a case of suicideThis was supported by the statements given by the witnesses in the case Hiray submittedThe bench also questioned how the postmortem report allegedly indicated that the victim had not suffered injuries despite falling from such a heightIf a person falls from a height of 14 floors wouldnt there be any injuries to the body Justice Dangre askedResponding to the courts query Hiray said photographs of the victim showed head injuriesHowever Satish Salians advocate Nilesh Ojha disputed the claim alleging that the initial photographs shown to him by the police did not depict any such injuriesThe police then fabricated these photos showing head injuries Ojha allegedThe High Court also pulled up the police for not providing certain caserelated documents including the ADR to the petitionerAs per the police there is no FIR and hence no probe going on When only an accidental death inquiry is being conducted and the polices inference is suicide what is stopping them from giving certain innocuous documents to the petitioner the court observedThe bench posted the matter for further hearing on August 24In his petition Satish Salian has sought a CBI probe into his daughters death and the registration of an FIR against Shiv Sena UBT MLA Aaditya ThackerayHe has alleged that Disha Salian was found dead under mysterious circumstances in June 2020 and claimed that she was raped and murdered followed by a politically orchestrated coverup to protect certain influential individualsDisha Salian had briefly served as the manager of actor Sushant Singh Rajput who died by suicide on June 14 2020This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever