Amid the ongoing investigation in the Tiger Shroff firing case, the Mumbai Crime Branch has detained one more suspect with the help of Sonipat Police. On Thursday, the police, ‘acted on specific inputs from its investigation,’ and the Mumbai Crime Branch team has detained one more suspect in Sonipat, Haryana, with the help of the Sonipat Police. Further legal action is under way, as per a report. Earlier in the day, all the accused in the firing case were produced before a special MCOCA court and remanded to police custody until November 6.
Mumbai Police detains accused till November 6
According to ANI’s report, the had requested ten days of custody for the 11 accused in the firing case. The court subsequently granted police custody of all 11 accused until November 6. The medical history of the ninth accused, who has only one kidney, was submitted to the court.
After the hearing, Lawyer Ajinkya Mirgal Madhukar said, “We presented the medical records of the ninth accused to the court. He has only one functional kidney-the other is non-functional… Initially, they (Mumbai Police) argued that they needed to trace the digital and financial trails and extract information from the seized mobile phones. Our counter-argument was that since all these items have already been seized, there is no need for physical custody.”
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The judge asked all the case accused if they had any complaints or anything to say. The judge also inquired whether they understood Marathi, and further instructed them to co-operate with the investigation.
What’s the latest development in Tiger Shroff Firing Case?
The Mumbai Police have invoked provisions of MCOCA, 1999, against all accused in the case. On Tuesday, MCOCA provisions were invoked in the Detection of Crime Branch, Criminal Investigation Department (DCB-CID), which was registered on October 19 under Sections 109(1) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with Sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act, police said.
The police said permission to invoke the provisions of MCOCA was granted by the competent authority under Section 23(1)(a) of the Act on October 27.” Accordingly, Sections 3(1) (ii), 3(2) and 3(4) of MCOCA have been added to the said case against all accused. Further investigation is ongoing,” as per Mumbai Police. The Esplanade Court in Mumbai on Monday had remanded four accused to police custody till October 28. The four accused, Kunal, Sumit, Radha and Babita, were produced before the Esplanade Court (Killa Court) for the second time.