Mumbai: In voice notes, Desai criticised creditor firm, says police

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Nitin Desai criticised a financial services firm to which his company owed money in one of the voice notes found after his alleged suicide, police said.

The police stated that Desai also purportedly said that he had walked a long road, and could not go any further.

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Raigad police who are investigating the suicide, found 11 audio clips in a voice recorder found at Desai's office.

"In one of these clips or voice notes, he is heard stating that his company could not come out of the financial crisis it was facing because of the procedure adopted by the financial services firm," an official said.

"The voice notes were of duration ranging from four minutes to 20 minutes, and in some of them Desai narrated his life story," the official said.

"Police are likely to call the officials of the financial services firm mentioned in the note for enquiry," he said.

According tot police, Nitin Desai's company had defaulted on a Rs 252 crore loan repayment to creditors.

The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal had initiated insolvency proceedings against it.

In another voice note, Desai appealed to the Mahaarshtra government to take over his Karjat studio to provide a platform to budding talent.

"He had faced many ups and downs in life and walked a long road, and it was not possible for him to go a few more steps further from this point, that was why he was stopping here, Desai purportedly said in one note," police added.

The art director who had designed the sets of films such as "Lagaan" and "Jodhaa Akbar" was found dead on the premises of his N D Studios at Karjat on Wednesday morning.

The autopsy report said that death was due to hanging, said Somnath Gharge, Raigad superintendent of police.

(with inputs from PTI)