Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis on August 3 said the State government would probe the role of a private lending firm in connection with the death of acclaimed Bollywood art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai.
“Desai, through sheer talent, had done work to make the Marathi-speaking man proud. We will probe if creditors had applied pressure to take over Desai’s studio, whether he was under stress, or was any illicit interest applied in his case? While we cannot say today, the State government will also explore legal options on how Desai’s studio can be taken over,” Mr. Fadnavis said, adding all angles would be probed in the case.
Mr. Fadnavis was responding to Bandra West MLA Ashish Shelar, who demanded that the ambit of the probe into Desai’s death be widened, and his demise not be treated only as a case of accidental death.
