India, March 24 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday expressed its displeasure over the Maharashtra government's continued delay in submitting its final report in the case related to the 2020 death of celebrity manager Disha Salian, and directed the police to submit it "based on the material already available on record".

"No factor justifies the delay in filing the report," said a division bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Suman Shyam, while hearing a petition filed by Disha's father, Satish Salian. The petition alleged that Disha was gang-raped and murdered, and the case was covered up as a suicide to protect influential persons.

The Mumbai police, through additional public prosecutor Mankuwar Deshmukh, informed the...