Even as director has returned to Golmaal 5 set, there’s some development in his house-firing case, almost 2 months after the incident.
On March 21, it was reported that the 14th person accused of the shooting has been detained in UP by the Mumbai Crime Branch team with the help of UP STF. The man named Golu Pandit was one of the unknown assailants who fired four rounds of bullets outside the filmmaker’s Juhu residence on January 31. Ever since, the police have been investigating and working to nab all the men allegedly involved in the case.
Times Now got exclusive information about Golu Pandit’s arrest. According to DCP Raj Tilak Roushan, the man is being brought to Mumbai and will be produced in the court tomorrow (March 22). Further details will be shared as the team reaches Mumbai.
According to ANI, the Mumbai police said, “The 14th accused, Golu Pandit, has been detained in UP by the Mumbai Crime Branch team with the help of the UP STF. He is being brought to Mumbai and will be produced in Court tomorrow.”
Rohit Shetty’s house firing case details
Rohit Shetty’s left the Bollywood fraternity shocked, leading to a team of police officers initiating an investigation. As heavy police security around his residential tower was deployed, jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang took responsibility for the firing in a post on Facebook.
On February 18, an official from the Mumbai Police confirmed that the crime branch has found the gun. This came soon after the investigators discovered new details suggesting that the accused were recruited through a mix of social media outreach and local networks. The Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Crime Branch arrested the accused in connection with the case, including the alleged shooter Deepak Chandra Sharma.
Case of attempted murder?
Further probe revealed that the crime was carried out with the intent to cause harm to the filmmaker, apart from instilling fear and supremacy. The crime branch arrested five men in Pune – Aditya Gayaki (19), Siddharth Yenpure (20), Samarth Pomaji (18), Swapnil Sakat (23) and Asaram Fasale for allegedly providing a scooter and other logistic support and weapons to the shooter. They were all produced at the MCOCA court on February 17 after their police custody had expired. Swapnil, however, told the court that the police coerced his statement and made him sign it.
Police claimed that the accused were following the commands of Lawrence Bishnoi gang member Shubham Lonkar. In the next few days, six more people were nabbed from Rajasthan for involvement in the incident. Asaram Fasle allegedly supplied weapons for the firing incident. He possibly joined the gang after being influenced by Shubham, the alleged mastermind of the Baba Siddiqui murder case.