The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested four more people including two women in the firing case on actor Tiger Shroff.
With this, the number of people arrested in this case has now reached seven. Police has intensified its action in the firing case related to Tiger Shroff.
The team of Mumbai Crime Branch brought the three accused arrested from Kota, Rajasthan to Mumbai on Wednesday.
According to Mumbai Police, the four accused arrested from Delhi and Sonipat are accused of supplying weapons to Mumbai. At present all the accused related to this case are being interrogated.
DCP Praveen Tripathi of Delhi Police Special Cell said that one of these four accused, Kunal, was recently released from jail in another case and had gone to Amritsar with his associate Sumit to collect weapons.
The DCP told reporters, "Yesterday (Tuesday) a special team arrested four people. These include two women named Radha and Babita and two men named Sumit and Kunal. In another case, after being recently released from jail, Kunal had gone to Amritsar with his partner Sumit to collect weapons on the instructions of Anil Pandit."
He told, "After collecting weapons from a fixed place there, he took them to Mumbai with the help of his partner Radha. In Mumbai, Radha and Babita handed over the weapons to a minor boy near the railway station. Kunal used Radha and Babita to deliver the weapons. Taking advantage of his personal relationship with Radha, he involved her in this work. Both of them took the weapons to Mumbai by train."
DCP Tripathi claimed, "Kunal was in touch with Anil Pandit through encrypted communication channels. Earlier, at the behest of Anil Pandit, he had carried out a firing incident in Panipat. This time too, Anil Pandit was giving him instructions through social media and Kunal was passing on those instructions. These instructions were related to the movement of weapons. It was told from where to get the weapons, how to take them to Mumbai and from there. Whom to hand over?"
Was there any other celebrity also on the target of these people, then DCP Tripathi said, "No such thing came to light during the interrogation. These people were only part of the arms supply network. They only had the information about where to get the weapons and where to deliver them."
He further said, "Anil Pandit and Harry Boxer are part of the Randeep Malik gang. Recently, the name of this gang has come to light in connection with the incidents of ransom calls and firing. These people were in touch through encrypted mediums. They used to get instructions through these mediums, which they followed."
According to DCP Tripathi, "According to our initial information, Kunal had received 70 to 80 thousand rupees for helping in transporting the weapons from one place to another. Out of this, about 10 to 12 thousand rupees were given to Babita, who was delivering the weapons. Kunal and Sumit are residents of Sonipat. Radha and Babita are originally from Uttar Pradesh, but they were living in Sonipat."
"These people had come in contact with each other only during the last two to three weeks for this specific work. They left from here on the 15th and reached Mumbai on the morning of the 17th. At around 11 in the morning, they handed over the weapons to the minor boy near Dadar Railway Station."
The name of one of the three main accused arrested earlier in this case is Rehan. Rehan's mother, who lives in Haryana, spoke to the media after police interrogation. He told, "The policemen asked us how your son reached Mumbai? Had anyone misled him? I told them that he neither had money for rent nor any other thing."
According to Rehan's mother, she told the police that her son was missing for the last 20 to 22 days and the family had searched for him extensively.
According to news agency IANS, Sonipat Police has also detained a childhood friend of Rehan in connection with the investigation. However, the family of the detained youth has clearly denied his involvement in any kind of conspiracy.
On Wednesday, Mumbai Police has reached Mumbai with the accused Phool Singh, Hrithik Kumar and Rehan arrested from Kota and is completing the process of presenting them in the court after getting their medical done.
Mumbai Police has traced the former owner of the motorcycle used by the shooters. Rajab Ali Shaikh, the bike's owner, told news agency ANI, "We sold the bike for Rs 25,000 to Rs 26,000. When this incident came to the media, the police reached our house. Then we realized that the person to whom we had sold the bike, or perhaps someone else, might have used it."
After the attack on Tiger Shroff, Mumbai Police has increased the security of Salman Khan. According to news agency IANS, "A patrolling van of the local Bandra police station is also present at the spot. Police personnel have been deployed inside and outside the building, as well as on both sides of the road."
According to the agency, "Four members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang were arrested in Delhi. During interrogation, they allegedly revealed that they had planned to target actor Tiger Shroff after he opened fire outside actor Salman Khan's house. However, they could not execute their plan due to tight security."
