SIT in Disha Salian death case meant to divert attention from land 'scam', says Sena (UBT)

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Leaders of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Thursday alleged that the Maharashtra government has announced a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Disha Salian death case to divert the attention from the Nagpur land "scam" involving Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said in the state Assembly that an SIT will be formed to conduct a probe into the death of Salian, the former manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

According to police, Salian (28) allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in Malad area of Mumbai on June 8, 2020.
Talking to reporters in Delhi, Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said it has been established that Rajput committed suicide.

"Rahul Shewale (Lok Sabha member from Shinde's Sena faction) made defamatory claims against Aaditya Thackeray. All this is being done to divert attention from the NIT scam," he said.

In Nagpur, Aaditya Thackeray was present in the Assembly when the MLAs belonging to the Shinde-led Sena faction and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raised the issue of Shewale's allegation in the Lok Sabha.

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Talking to reporters on the legislature complex premises later, Thackeray said his opponents had no guts to take the names while levelling allegations.
"Never before politics stooped to such low levels. All this is being done to divert the attention from the NIT scam involving the chief minister," he charged.
The present government was playing dirty politics which has never happened in the House in the past, he said.

"Never did I see the House work in this manner in the last two-and-a-half years. I have been watching the proceedings of the state legislature and Parliament for the last many years on TV. But I never saw the ruling party protest in this manner in the Well of the House," the MLA from Worli in Mumbai said.

He noted that Salian's parents had requested the President to stop defaming the family.

On Wednesday, there was uproar in the Council over the Nagpur land allotment decision by CM Shinde as the urban development minister in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court had last week ordered status quo on the decision taken by Shinde, when he was the minister in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led government, over the allotment of land meant for slum dwellers to private persons. Shinde has denied any wrongdoing and rejected the opposition's demand to quit.

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