Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw was allegedly manhandled and his automotive attacked with a baseball bat outdoors a luxurious resort at Santacruz on February 15. Shaw obtained into an argument with social media influencer, Sapna Gill and her good friend Shobhit Thakur after the participant refused to click on selfies with them. Gill who was arrested following the incident claimed earlier than a courtroom on Friday that it was Prithvi who hit her.
Following the incident, Sapna was arrested, whereas her good friend Shobhit Thakur and 6 others had been booked on the cost of rioting and extortion. According to preliminary data, the Oshiwara police stated {that a} case has been registered in opposition to the accused and 7 others below Indian Penal Code sections 143 (illegal meeting), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (prison intimidation), and others offences.
The courtroom has remanded Gill in police custody until February 20. During the remand listening to, Gill put ahead her model of the incident.
All the allegations in opposition to her had been false, Gill stated, including, “He (Shaw) hit me on the chest and arms.”
“We were there just to take help of police. They were eight to ten people and we were just two,” Gill stated.
The influencer additionally claimed that Shaw and his good friend asked her to not file a police criticism, stated sorry, and left.
On the declare that the incident occurred after she asked for a selfie with Shaw, Gill stated, “I do not know him, nor I have ever seen him. I never asked for a selfie with him.”
Gill additionally denied the allegation that she had asked for Rs 50,000 to settle the case.
“He was totally drunk. He was in front of a police station, he could have filed the FIR then only,” the influencer stated. But since Shaw was drunk, he considered doing that later, Gill claimed.
Earlier, DCP Anil Paraskar gave updates on this matter whereas speaking to India TV.
In the data given by DCP Paraskar, he talked about that that is the incident of the fifteenth of February 2023 during which the controversy relating to selfies began. The membership of the resort during which this incident occurred got here below the purview of Santacruz. When the matter occurred there, these folks (Sapna and her mates) had been faraway from the membership, when Prithvi got here out, the accused adopted their automotive and began arguing with them. After this, these folks pushed and broke the glass of the automotive whereas attacking. When the matter escalated lots, the miscreants gathered a crowd and asked for a settlement demanding Rs 50,000 from the complainant.
Who is Sapna Gill?
Sapna Gill is a social media influencer with greater than 2 lakh followers on Instagram. She hails from Chandigarh and has acted in Bhojpuri movies together with actors like Ravi Kishan and Dinesh Lal Yadav. She has been part of motion pictures reminiscent of Nirhua Chalal London Kashi Amarnath, and Mera Watan.
