Mumbai, July 3 -- The Mahrashtra goverment and Mumbai police have denied that celebrity manager Disha Salian, former manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, was raped and murdered in 2020, the year when the Uddhav Thackeray government was in power.

The police have stuck to their five-year-old stand, which is considered a major relief to Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aditya Thackery. Disha's father had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking the court nod for a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) or CBI, alleging foul play and political pressure involving the junior Thackeray and a former city police commissioner, among others. In response to the petition, senior inspector of Malvani police station Shailendra Nagarkar on Wednes...