Will those named by Disha Salian's father be arrested: BJP MLAs

MLAs of the ruling BJPled Mahayuti alliance on Thursday raised the Disha Salian death controversy in the Maharashtra assembly seeking to know whether the persons named by her father who has moved the Bombay High Court will be arrested reported news agency PTIA day after Dishas father Satish Salian demanded a fresh probe into her death the issue was raised by Ameet Satam BJP in the lower houseDisha Salian former manager of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput died or was killed on June 8 2020 MLA Satam saidPolice termed the death as suicide and no further action was taken An SIT was formed in December 2022 but no report has been submitted as yet But social media is full of speculation about whether a party was going on when she died whether she was killed he said reported PTISalians father has told the media that he suspects his daughter was gangraped and murdered He has filed a petition in the court The previous MVA government suppressed the case The then Mayor met him Satish Salian misled him and pressurized him not to speak He has said a minister in the previous MVA regime was involved This is a serious allegation Satam added reported PTISatish Salian notably had said his petition in the High Court demands registration of an FIR against Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray who was a minister in the MVA government led by Uddhav Thackeray when Disha diedPowerful people and those born with silver spoons in their mouths should not be let off Satam said without naming anyone reported PTIHe sought to know what the special investigation team formed by the previous Mahayuti government had been doing Will it interrogate the persons named by Satish Salian the BJP MLA askedThose named should be arrested for custodial interrogation he demandedKhotkar said the case should be investigated thoroughlyMinister Nitesh Rane said that as per a Supreme Court judgement a person against whom such allegations are made should be arrested immediately and demanded to know whether the former minister will be arrestedShambhuraj Desai supported Rane saying the law cannot be different for the common man and the powerful people demanding the arrest of those named by Satish SalianSatam sought to know when the SIT probe will be completedShouting slogans MLAs of the ruling alliance members entered the Well of the House Speaker Rahul Narwekar then adjourned the house for ten minutesAfter the house reassembled Minister of State for Home Yogesh Kadam said the SIT probe was still going on and Salians father had made the state government a party to his petitionWe will act as per the court orders Those who are guilty no matter how powerful they are will not be spared Law is same for all he said reported PTIDisha Salian died on June 8 2020 after falling off the 14th floor of a residential building in suburban Malad The city police had then registered an Accidental Death Report ADR case Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly committed suicide in his apartment in suburban Bandra six days laterWith inputs from PTI