Satellite Shankar hero Sooraj Pancholi has rubbished the rumours that linked him to the recent death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager Disha Salian, calling them “disgusting, inappropriate and insensitive”. The actor has said he didn’t know her at all before she he learnt about her death through social media. In a interview with Beyond Bollywood, Sooraj revealed, “I don’t even know Disha. I never met her in my life. I only knew about her after her death, and then later Sushant’s death, that too through social media. I’d never interacted, don’t know what she even looked like.”It all started after a social media post alleging connection between Sooraj and Disha.
However, the report quoted police saying that the speculation was unfounded and baseless. Claiming that the rumours are a disrespect to the deceased, he said, “It is inappropriate to talk [like this] about people who are no longer there. Think about the girl’s family, her brother and sister, and what they are going through right now. It is disheartening not because they are writing about me but you are writing this about someone who is not there anymore.”
People who have nothing to do have written it like a movie script. It looks like a script that has gone wrong. I feel I’ll be wasting my time if I give a statement to something as disgusting, inappropriate and insensitive as that,” he said. Disha died after falling from a high-rise building in Malad. Sooraj is being tried in late girlfriend Jiah Khan’s suicide case. Jiah was found dead at her Mumbai apartment on June 3, 2013. On the work front, Sooraj Pancholi will be next seen in ‘Hawa Singh’, a biopic on the legendary Indian boxer. Salman Khan launched the first look poster of the film on February 5th.