Patna: The Bombay High Court’s order directing a fresh CBI probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager Disha Salian has rekindled hopes in Bihar that the circumstances surrounding the two deaths could be examined afresh.Salian died on June 8, 2020, after falling from a residential building in Mumbai, while Sushant died six days later on June 14 at his Bandra residence. The six-day gap in the two deaths has since fuelled speculation about a possible connection, though no such link has been established by investigators.Sushant’s cousin Panna Singh in Purnia, the ancestral village of the actor, welcomed High Court’s intervention and said the family had faith in the judiciary. “It now seems that we will get justice,” Singh said.He alleged that Sushant had been murdered and claimed that the actor had planned to hold a news conference to reveal evidence. “He was a fearless boy. He was not afraid of anyone. Sushant was going to hold a news conference and expose all these pieces of evidence, and we believe that because of this, he was murdered,” Singh said.Former Bihar minister and the late actor’s cousin Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu said the latest development had renewed his hope that the truth would emerge.“When Sushant died, we believed that it was a murder. We had gone to Mumbai, and from the time we came to know what had happened there, we had continuously been saying that Sushant was murdered and that Salian’s death was related to Sushant’s murder,” Bablu said.He alleged that the then Maharashtra govt had suppressed the matter and that attempts had been made to destroy or conceal evidence. Bablu said High Court’s intervention and the fresh CBI probe had given hope to Sushant’s family, people in Bihar and his fans across the country.Sushant’s sister Shweta Singh Kirti also welcomed the development. In a video shared on X and Instagram, she expressed hope that the fresh inquiry would bring out the truth and said the fresh CBI probe into Salian’s death had given hope to many of Sushant’s supporters.
