MUMBAI: The Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha Salian cases are two of the most talked about ones in the country. Since the demise of SSR, his fans started to connect both the cases, as Disha passed away on 8th June 2020, whereas SSR passed away on 14th June 2020, just one week later. They don’t believe it was a co-incidence.
This was confirmed when SSR’s close family friend Smita Parekh came out and confessed that the actor was highly disturbed post Disha’s death and he feared for his life. He kept telling his sister that "they" would kill him.
Six months after both their demises, there is still no clarity, as both passed away under mysterious circumstances.
Sushant’s demise brought out the dark side of Bollywood, where netizens bashed the entire industry for not treating non-star kids in a good way and for bullying and making fun of them.
While investigating the SSR case, the ED found out a drug angle, which exposed the drug mafia that exists in the industry. The names of celebrities got attached to the SSR case.
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Have a look.
1. Rhea Chakraborty
Rhea is the prime suspect in the SSR case, as she was the late actor’s partner and was in a live-in relationship with him. She left and broke up with SSR on 8th June 2020, the day Disha passed away.
Her name gained prominence when SSR’s family filed a case against her for torturing and mentally killing SSR. Though the actress has denied all charges on her, she had confessed to having procured drugs for SSR.
She has been interrogated by all three agencies and was arrested by the NCB and is out on bail.
2. Dino Morea
The actor’s name surfaced when there were media reports doing the rounds that on the day of SSR’s demise, there was a party at Dino’s residence and people from there had come to SSR’s home late night
But the actor then released a statement and clarified that he had nothing to do in the case and these were all false rumours. He told the press to be more careful.
3. Sooraj Pancholi
Sooraj Pancholi’s name first erupted in the Disha Salian case where there reports suggesting that Disha was pregnant and Sooraj was behind it and thus the cover up.
But then Sooraj came out and cleared his stance by saying that he doesn’t know Disha and has nothing to do with the case. He asked the media to be more sensitive while reporting.
Time and again, his name was taken, but the actor stood strong and cleared his name. He faced a lot of backlash on social media.
4. Arbaaz Khan
Arbaaz Khan's name had popped up when netizens started to speculate that Disha had attended a party thrown by him and something went wrong there.
The actor thus came out and said that he had nothing to do with the case. He asked all to be sensitive while discussing such news filed a defamation case on all the media channels and fan clubs who put these false allegations on him.
5. Rashami Desai
Rashami's name came up in the Disha Salian case as she was close to her and had met her a day before she passed away, but when Republic had contacted her, she refused to give any details and said that she had nothing to with the case. She knew Disha and was shocked over what had happened.
6. Shibani Dandekar
Shibani came into the limelight when from one of the media footage, channels began to speculate that she was the mysterious girl present at SSR’s building on the day of demise.
The actress was so furious that she came out and clarified by saying that just because she is quiet, it doesn’t mean that anyone can take advantage of her. She then stated that the mysterious girl was SSR’s PR and not her.
7. Aditya Chopra
At the beginning of the case, the Mumbai Police had declared this a suicide, and fans started to speculate how Bollywood pressure could have made SSR take such a step. Kangana then named Aditya, Karan Johar, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Aditya was called for interrogation at the Versova police station on why the YRF deal was broken and why Aditya stepped down as a producer of SSR’s movie Paani.
8. Mahesh Bhatt
Director Mahesh Bhatt’s name kept poppingup in the case as he has a close alliance with Rhea and it was he and his brother Mukesh Bhatt who said that they knew SSR was not well and that he would take this path. Owing to this Mahesh Bhatt was seen in the Santacruz station for interrogation. His chats with Rhea and phone records came into the picture.
9. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sanjay Leela Bhansali was called for interrogation owing to SSR being replaced in Ram Leela and other projects that SLB originally wanted him to feature in.
10. Deepika Padukone
As we all know, while the ED was investigating the SSR case, they found out chats between Rhea and drug peddlers that exposed the drug mafia in Bollywood. Deepika’s manager Karishma Prakash’s name emerged and their chats about drugs surfaced on media channels, and thus, she was called by the NCB officials.
Deepika denied consuming or procuring drugs.
11. Sara Ali Khan
Sara's name came up during the investigation by NCB where she did accept that she was in a relationship with SSR during the shoot of Kedarnath, and she used to visit SSR’s farmhouse at Pawna lake, where there used to party, but she denied consuming and procuring drugs.
12. Shraddha Kapoor
Shraddha’s name came into the picture as there was a Chhichhore success party that took place at SSR’s farmhouse where the NCB believes that drugs were consumed. They interrogated Shraddha, but she denied consuming or procuring of drugs.
Her name also cropped up in the drug chats with Jaya Saya and Karishma where she had asked for CBD, but during her questioning, she had said she has nothing to do with drugs.
13. Salman Khan
Salman's name cropped up as there were reports doing the rounds that he had brought some stakes in the Kwan PR company which came under the NCB lens.
But the actor released a statement and said that he has nothing to do with the company and not to drag him into all this.
14. Karan Johar
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Karan Johar’s name was pulled into this case when netizens slammed his show Koffee with Karan and said he bullies newcomers and only supports star kids. He on purpose delayed the movie Drive in which SSR starred.
15. Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar's name popped up after he announced the launch of the game, Fauji, and fans and netizens connected it to a game that SSR was going to launch. Then, the production company of the game came out and said the game had nothing to do with the SSR case.
Later Akshay also filed a defamation case on the person who spread this news like fire, a YouTuber.
Though he wasn’t called for interrogation, the CEO of his company Apoorva Mehta was called, and two employees of Dharma Production was also arrested by NCB for procuring and consuming drugs.
Well, these were a few names who were dragged into the SSR and Disha’s cases.
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