No BJP leader took Aaditya's name in Sushant case: Fadnavis
August 28, 2020 19:15
Former Maharashtra chief minister
Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said that no Bharatiya Janata Party leader 'directly or
indirectly' took state minister Aaditya Thackeray's name in connection
with Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case.
Talking to
reporters here on the sidelines of the inauguration of a COVID-19
hospital at Baner in Pune, Fadnavis said that surprising revelations are
coming up in the case.
Rajput was found hanging at his flat in Mumbai's
Bandra on June 14.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has recently taken over the probe into the
case.
"No leader from the BJP has taken the name of Aaditya Thackeray
directly or indirectly (in Rajput case). The kind of revelations that
are coming up in the case, I think they are surprising," he said.
The
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly wondered why all these
revelations did not come to light before the CBI took over the probe.
"After 40 days (of the incident), the CBI took over the investigation.
What if evidence were destroyed during these 40 days? I have come to
know through media reports that eight hard disks were destroyed,"
Fadnavis said.
"After seeing these things, a question arises whether
Maharashtra police was under any political pressure during the
investigation," he said.
"I am sure the CBI will bring the truth out.
The only thing is that if the truth was investigated earlier, I think
the evidence would not have got destroyed and we would have known the
culprit," he said.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had recently alleged a
conspiracy to link Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray to the actor's
death case.
Although Raut did not take any name, he had said that the
Opposition cannot digest the fact that the Sena-led government is in
power in the state.
Aaditya, son of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray,
had himself also clarified that he was nowhere related to the actor's
death case, and that he and his family were being targeted for no
reason.
Congress leader Sachin Sawant has tweeted a photo of Fadnavis
with film producer Sandeep Singh, whose name has cropped in the
investigation.
Sawant sought a probe into the 'BJP angle' in the case.
When asked about the tweet, Fadnavis said, "Sawant is in the government.
Then why did their Mumbai police keep all the suspects away? Why
weren't they questioned?"
"Why from the first day, it was termed as a
suicide?" he asked.
On the photo, Fadnavis said that he might have been
present in some programme, where Singh was also there.
"But the same
person was a director or producer of a film on Balasaheb Thackeray," he
said.
"It shows that Sachin Sawant does not do his homework. He is
saying all these things out of frustration," he said.
Sawant in his
tweet said, '@OfficeofUT, @AnilDeshmukhNCP request you to see @BJP4India
angle in following request. CBI to qn Mr. Sandeep Singh in drug nexus
in #SushantSinghRajputDeathCase.'
Singh was a producer of a biopic on
PM Narendra Modi, whose poster was launched by Fadnavis. -- PTI