Three suspected assailants who allegedly shot at actor Tiger Shroff’s car yesterday (October 18) were arrested from a train at Kota in Rajasthan on 19th. They had planned to escape to Nepal via Jaipur and Delhi.
Police tracked the trio — Phool Singh Naresh, Rehan Rahiussudin Ansari, both 18 years old and from Sonipat in Haryana, and Hrithik Kumar alias Roshan (22), who moved from Begusarai (Bihar) to Bombay four years ago — to Andheri station in Bombay, where they abandoned a bike bought a week earlier for Rs. 25,000.
The three took an aggregator cab to Surat station and boarded an unreserved coach of Pune-Jaipur Express. No firearm was recovered from them. The police are yet to ascertain whether the objective was to kill Tiger, intimidate him or extort money from him. It is suspected that the main operative, Anil Pandit of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, had recruited one of the three. Pandit reportedly promised to help the men secure jobs and settle abroad after the attack.