A Rapido driver, a labourer, and a minor are among the accused who opened fire at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff’s car as the actor was leaving a football club in Mumbai’s Juhu area on Sunday night, police said.
The accused were intercepted in Rajasthan’s Kota, while they were on a train and headed to Delhi, police said, adding, they wanted to flee to Nepal.
Tiger Shroff, son of the ’80s star Jackie Shroff, escaped unhurt but his driver and another driver of an autorickshaw were injured in the incident, police said.
Preliminary questioning revealed that they intended to travel to Delhi by this train and then escape to Nepal from there,” Kota Superintendent of Police Tejaswani Gautam told reporters. Investigators are questioning the accused to establish their individual roles and determine whether all three were directly involved in the shooting. “We covered the exit points, platforms and various other locations to apprehend the accused. It was the Pune-Jaipur Express. The Mumbai Police have arrived, and we will hand the accused over to them. Based on preliminary questioning, one of the accused is a Rapido rider. The other two, one of whom is a minor and the other, Rehan, work as labourers in Sonipat. The police are yet to recover the firing weapon from the accused, who were travelling in a general comaprtment when they were caught. “This morning, we received information, prompting us to activate our team. “The names of these three individuals are: Rehan, alias Sukka, from Sonipat, Haryana; Hritik Kurmi, alias Roshan, from Begusarai, Bihar, who had been residing in Mumbai, Maharashtra, for the past few years; and one minor.
We learned that the three primary suspects involved in the firing were travelling by train and were due to arrive in Kota. The three accused received Rs 50,000 collectively as advance to carry out the attack, according to police sources. We received the information around 9:45 am. Acting on this information, our team, within just 15 minutes, set a trap and thoroughly searched the entire train.
The actor, son of the ’80s star Jackie Shroff, escaped unhurt but his driver and another driver of an autorickshaw were injured in the incident, police said. Through this swift action by the Kota City Police, we have apprehended all three suspects responsible for the firing,” officer Tejaswani Gautam said. We have detained all three, and we will now hand them over to the Mumbai Police,” the officer said.
