Another youth has been arrested by the Mumbai Police in reference to the alleged manhandling of Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw. The youth’s title is Sobit, and he was taken into custody after Shaw was allegedly attacked and his automobile was broken with a baseball bat outdoors a resort in Mumbai’s Santacruz space. The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, following an argument between Shaw and a girl social media influencer named Sapna Gill and her buddy Shobit Thakur. The argument reportedly began after Shaw refused to take more selfies with Gill. The Mumbai Police had earlier arrested two different youths named Rudra and Sahil in reference to the case. In whole, 4 arrests have been made thus far.
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A grievance in regards to the incident was filed by Shaw’s buddy Ashish Yadav, who’s his flatmate for the final three years and runs a restaurant. As per the grievance, the cricketer was approached by Gill and Thakur for a selfie on the resort and Shaw initially allowed them to get clicked with him. But after they insisted on getting more photos, Shaw turned down the demand, following which Gill and her buddy began misbehaving with the cricketer in an inebriated situation. On seeing this, the resort supervisor intervened and requested each Gill and Thakur to vacate the premises.
Following the incident, Shaw and Yadav had dinner on the resort. But after they stepped out, they noticed Thakur holding a baseball bat in his hand, the grievance mentioned. The accused went on to assault the windshield of the automobile and Shaw was additionally manhandled by Gill, it mentioned. The cricketer was shifted to a different automobile whereas Yadav and others drove his automobile to Oshiwara.
Yadav mentioned three bikes and a white-coloured automobile have been chasing their automobile. At 4 am, the chasers attacked his automobile whereas it was taking a u-turn close to a petroleum pump on Link Road, he mentioned.
Thakur was one of the individuals chasing the automobile and attacked its windshield with a bat, the grievance mentioned. Six individuals on bikes together with Gill and Thakur, who have been each sitting in a automobile, abused Yadav and his pals, the grievance mentioned, including that Yadav took the automobile to Oshiwara police station.
The eight accused adopted Yadav to the station and threatened him to pay Rs 50,000 to settle the difficulty or else she would lodge a faux police grievance towards them, as per police. The Oshiwara Police arrested Gill on Thursday and 7 others have been booked for allegedly making an attempt to intimidate the cricketer by damaging his automobile and threatening to implicate him in a faux case. The Police recorded the assertion of Shaw’s buddy Ashish Yadav once more on Tuesday.
Yadav informed the police that the accused had threatened to kill him. After Yadav’s assertion, the police added Section 387 (placing an individual in concern of demise or of grievous damage, in order to commit extortion) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to the FIR. “The accused had given life threats to Yadav. IPC Sec 387 added to the FIR,” Mumbai Police mentioned.
Oshiwara Police registered a case below sections 143 (illegal meeting), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (legal intimidation) and another sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) primarily based on the grievance. Police mentioned that Gill and Thakur have been in an intoxicated state in the course of the incident. Sapna Gill was produced earlier than the Andheri courtroom on Friday the place the courtroom despatched her in police custody until February 20. It was argued on behalf of Sapna’s lawyer referring to media stories that Shaw has a behavior of alcohol and that’s the reason he has been banned by the BCCI.
“Sapna didn’t say anything like give Rs 50,000 and end the case. There is no proof of this. Sapna is an influencer, after 15 hours Prithvi Shaw gets the complaint done through his friend in the police..why it was not done on the same day?” the lawyer argued. Accused Sapna Gill mentioned in courtroom that she didn’t know who Prithvi Shaw was.
“My friend had asked him for the selfie. I didn’t know he is a cricketer. We were only two and Prithvi shaw was with his eight friends. It’s all wrong that they had food in the hotel, we were partying in the club, and he was drunk. The police asked us to end the matter,” she mentioned. While speaking to the media, Sapna Gill’s lawyer mentioned that the allegations levelled by Shaw are false. “Today we put our stand in the court that the allegations levelled by Prithvi Shaw are all wrong. In the next hearing, we will demand judicial custody of Sapna and as soon as the court grants it, we will appeal for bail, police have added Section 387,” he mentioned.
