Tiger Shroff’s attackers on 16-hour road journey to Mumbai, day after cops ‘being followed’ fears
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Tiger Shroff Attack News: The three men arrested for firing at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff in Juhu are being brought to Mumbai by road from Rajasthan’s Kota, a day after the police team escorting them turned back over security concerns, officials said on Tuesday.
The 16-hour journey is expected to end around 2 am on Wednesday. The accused will be produced in a Mumbai court on Wednesday.
Mumbai Police had first left Kota with the three on Monday evening, after a local court granted them transit remand for two days. “We handed them over to the Mumbai police, which obtained a transit remand and had a medical examination conducted on the accused,” Kota Additional SP Subhash Chandra Mishra said.
The team didn’t get far. “Some people were following them, so they stopped at a police station and then returned to Kota,” a source said. Officials said the team would leave only once satisfied with security, likely with a Rajasthan Police escort.
The three, Rehan Rahisuddin (18) and Phool Singh (18) from Haryana’s Sonipat and Hrithik Mahto (22) from Bihar’s Begusarai, allegedly fired five rounds at Shroff’s car as he left Pushpa Narsee Park on Sunday evening, after his weekly football game. Shroff escaped with minor abrasions. His driver, Firdous Ibrahim Baloch, was shot in the left hand, and a bystander, Umesh Chauhan, a vlogger filming the actor, is in intensive care with a bullet injury.
Police say Rehan and Singh, both daily-wage labourers, were the shooters, while Mahto, a bike-taxi rider living in Andheri, rode the motorcycle. One of the guns jammed during the attack, police said.
At 9.45 am on Monday, Mumbai Police DCP Raj Tilak Roushan called his batchmate, Kota SP Tejaswani Gautam. When the train pulled in at 10.30 am, police searched it and arrested the three in a general coach. No weapons were recovered.
Police say the three were lured with Rs 37,000 and the promise of being settled abroad. They have named US-based gangster Anil Pandit, who claimed responsibility in an audio clip and indicated a link to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Police have not verified that link
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