‘Your faces are out’: Handlers allegedly warned shooters in Tiger Shroff firing case

Three shooters, who were reported to have fled from the spot after firing at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff are receiving 'real-time updates from their handlers' regarding police investigation, claimed by police sources on Saturday.

As per media updates, the reported handlers were passing on the information directly to the alleged accusers through encrypted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messaging applications, the sources said.

According to sources in the crime branch investigating the case, at one point during the escape, when news channels aired visuals of the attack, one of the primary suspects received an urgent instruction on his mobile phone: "Your faces are out, get out of there.

Shroff was allegedly targeted at the behest of Lawrence Bishnoi gang member Anil Pandit, the Mumbai Police told a court on Wednesday. The probe into the firing incident widened with the arrest of five more persons.

He escaped relatively unhurt after two assailants fired gunshots at his car in Mumbai’s Juhu area on October 18 evening. His driver and a bystander were injured in the incident.

A motorcycle allegedly used by the shooters was later found abandoned in Andheri, while the three accused were apprehended from a train in Kota the following day.

Three key accused allegedly involved in the shooting were brought to Mumbai from Kota in Rajasthan on Wednesday morning and remanded in police custody till October 31 by a magistrate court.

The crime branch produced Rehan alias Sukka, a resident of Sonipat in Haryana; Ritik Kurmi alias Roshan, originally from Begusarai in Bihar and currently residing in Mumbai; and Phool Singh, also from Haryana, before the court and sought their custody for 14 days.