Union Minister Narayan Rane, his son attain police station in Mumbai to document assertion in Disha Salian defamation case

By PTI

MUMBAI: Union Minister Narayan Rane and his MLA son Nitesh Rane reached Malvani police station right here on Saturday to document their statements in reference to the case registered towards them for allegedly making defamatory remarks and spreading false details about Disha Salian, late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s former supervisor, an official stated.

Large variety of Rane’s supporters gathered and shouted slogans outdoors the police station within the western suburbs, because the BJP chief and his son arrived there round 1.45 pm, the official stated.

The duo will document their assertion earlier than the investigating officer within the case, he stated.

The Malvani police had earlier despatched a discover to Nitesh Rane to seem earlier than the investigating officer on Thursday and his father on Friday, however they knowledgeable the police, by their lawyer, that because the state legislature is in session and they’d desire to satisfy their duties on the given dates and seem earlier than the police on Saturday, he stated.

A courtroom right here on Friday had granted interim safety from arrest until March 10 to the father-son duo, who had filed an anticipatory bail earlier than the Dindoshi periods courtroom in suburban Malad fearing arrest within the case.

According to the FIR registered by Malvani police, some remarks had been made by the Union minister on February 19 in a press convention, the place his son was additionally current.

During the press convention, the minister had made sure claims concerning Salian’s dying.

Salian had allegedly dedicated suicide by leaping off a high-rise in suburban Malad on June 8, 2020, six days earlier than actor Rajput (34) was discovered hanging at his residence in suburban Bandra.