The number of arrests in the Tiger Shroff shooting case reached 10 on Wednesday, three days after trio opened fire at the actor's car.
Two men arrested by Mumbai Police on Wednesday evening were identified as Samir and Jatin, who allegedly helped the shooters acquire weapons. The latest arrests come hours after Gujarat Police nabbed a Lawrence Bishnoi gang member in the state.
On Tuesday, four people were arrested from Delhi and Haryana. Kunal, 21, and Sumit, 19, from Haryana's Sonipat. Radha, 21, and Babita, 21, who were working at showrooms in Sonipat, were arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur. They were taken into custody by Special Cell (NDR) and later produced before a Delhi court.
Jatin, the ninth accused in the case, reportedly travelled with Kunal and Sumit to Amritsar to procure the weapons. Kunal told police that they were allegedly acting on instructions of Lawrence Bishnoi gang member Anil Pandit. They procured a pistol and 20 rounds from the city. Kunal allegedly offered ₹12,000 each to Radha and Babita in exchange of transporting the weapon to Mumbai.
Kunal saw the women off at the New Delhi railway station on October 15 and kept in touch with them during the journey. After reaching Mumbai's Dadar on October 17, they took a room at a hotel. Around 11 am, a minor boy collected the bag containing the weapon near the hotel. The next day, Tiger Shroff's car was attacked in Juhu area.
Samir, the 10th accused, is an acquaintance of Jatin and was staying the three shooters in Mumbai's Andheri. They kept switching their lodgings in a bid to avoid police radar.
The trio who opened fire were identified as Ritik Kurmi alias Roshan, from Bihar's Begusarai, Rehan alias Sukka, and Phool Singh, both from Sonipat. They were nabbed from a train by the Kota city police on Monday. On Wednesday, they were remanded to police custody till October 31.
