Inside Tiger Shroff Shooting: Suspects' Modus Operandi Revealed By Mumbai Police After Investigation

Hello and welcome. You're watching The Urban Debate, a high-profile investigation which is underway into a brazen attack on actor Tiger Shroff in Mumbai. Three bike-borne assailants opened fire on Shroff's BMW near Pushpa Park in Juhu on the 18th of October as he was leaving a private sports event. The Lawrence Vishnoi gang has claimed responsibility for the attack. The assailants were later nabbed in Rajasthan's Kota. And after a local court granted a 48-hour transit remand, Mumbai police has now taken the custody of the three accused. They had a nap yesterday, and then they were produced in front of the competent court for transition remand. The court accepted their transition remand, and then they were handed over to the Mumbai Police. They were kept here at night. The reason was that they were also following us, so they were tired, they were not sleeping, and they also worked hard in the interrogation. So it was necessary for them to go here at night for security and safety purposes. Now the shooter certainly thoroughly seemed to have planned the attack on Tiger Shroff. It wasn't just one or two days, but the accused spent nearly three weeks planning this attack on the Bollywood actor. Here's how the shooter plotted the attack and also concealed their identities. Now, the attackers reportedly spent nearly 20 days in Mumbai. In those 20 days, 10 days were spent, reportedly, when it comes to tracking Tiger Shroff's movement. Now, what is being said, they followed his Instagram handles, the videos that came across and circulated. They recce also Tiger's home. They also did a recce of Tiger's gym. And the attack spot was recce at least multiple times in five days. Now, Tiger's daily movements were also monitored, routine reconstructed from posts that apparently used signal application when it comes to talking to the alleged mastermind. Now, in fact, when it comes to 18th of October, attack was not just the first attempt to target Tiger Shroff, according to reports. The shooters had reached the spot a week earlier on the 11th of October as well. Let's take you through the details because that seems to be the prequel. where the attack was first planned on the 11th of October. There are CCTV footages showing the suspects stayed there for a while and the attackers left after Tiger apparently did not turn up. Then comes a week later on the 18th of October when they planned the attack again. So the attackers could be seen back at the Juhu ground at around 4.30 in the afternoon and the CCTV footages that seems to be getting a peek into Tiger Shroff's movements as well where police suspect that others tipped off the shooters on his location and Tiger was attacked at around 7, 7.30 p.m. as he left the private event. Now, that seems to be the development coming across when the investigation is further underway, revealing when it comes to the two shooters identified as Rehan and Hrithik who were recruited for the task. Here is what top sources have told your channel. The revelation that comes across, at least the attack that was planned two months in advance, Rehan earlier fired at an Amritsar-based businessman as well. Then he reportedly came into contact with B Gang's Anil Pandit and he was reportedly offered Rs. 55,000 and the rest after the attack. Rehan then allegedly offered Hrithik a similar deal. And this is what we are learning through sources on the modus operandi because the attack on Tiger Shroff has shocked the entire film fraternity. But unfortunately, this has started to become a recurring phenomenon, especially with the rise of the B Gang or the Bishnoi Gang. Let's open this up and introduce our guests joining us here on the Urban Debate. We have Atul Shah, former MLA and spokesperson of the BJP. Krishna Hegde, spokesperson of the Shiv Sena Shinde faction. We also have Sanjay Sahai, former IPS officer joining in. Mahesh Chavan, spokesperson of the NCP. And we also have Anusha Srinivasan Iyer, who is a writer and a director. Of course, the politics aside, Anusha, I want to begin from you. when we speak of the current scenario and what happened with Tiger Shroff. Of course, there has been a lot of concern that has been raised within the film fraternity. But what is your understanding of the current situation that seems to be unfolding, Anusha? We are just allowing the underworld to come back again into our system. It was very difficult earlier when they were in here and everybody was threatened. The easiest target are the producers, directors and the actors. If you look at Tiger, he's very non-controversial. He doesn't even get into people's systems. He's one of the most gentle guys ever. Why is it that a man who is so simple and easy to understand becomes a target? It's like, you know, we are into animal welfare and they tell us that the dog that is the most gentlest is the one that gets affected the most. We are picking up actors again and are making them targets. And all this research that you did and you just explained should have been done by the system and the cops before this happened. This thing shouldn't have happened at all. The attack on Salman Khan was a warning. The second came with Rohit Shetty and now Tiger Shroff. And if we don't bring this Bishnoi gang to book right now, then it's just the beginning of letting the underworld hear and saying that we're not going to do a thing about it and it's only the journalists who will be doing the research and the recce later. Sanjay sir, what is your understanding? Of course, if one individual has claimed responsibility, but would it be soon enough to jump to a conclusion that it was the hand of the B Gang because when it comes to... Yes, sir, go on. We are not jumping into any conclusion. We had the Salman Khan Galaxy apartment firing, then Baba Siddiqui assassination case, then Rohit Shetty and then Tiger Sloth. So we are not jumping into any conclusion. What conclusion does it draw? I think I can leave it to you and the audience to decide. So broadly there is something called the B Gang which is operating in and out of Mumbai and they are very comfortable and conversant with that place and they can shoot at will and they can plan assassination or killing That is very strange. Before that we have this Deepak Rawal and AP Dilan in Vancouver, Subdev Singh Goga Mundi and the Sidhu Moose Wala and extortion and all that we are not extortion and all that we are not talking about and Goldy Brar carries one million dollars on his head for anybody providing information to reach Goldy Brar into some successful engagement primarily from the law enforcement point of view now the most intriguing factor is that the contours of this crime and the backdrop of this crime is pretty well known at least for the last two and a half years in Mumbai and everybody in Mumbai knows of the fact that this whole gangster business does not come back to the city but the effort which is being made by the police and by other agencies federal agencies either they are not delivering results or the effort is not being made the biggest difference which we find between pre-2010 and post-2024-2022 is the nature of technology which has seeped in at a very very uh intensive level and i'm convinced of the fact that that level of response from the technological point of view is not happening now one simple question is what we call as the open source intelligence in police which is primarily used against the criminal suspect and the accused. Now that open source intelligence is being used against the victims. Now the whole information what these people gathered in 15-20 days large part of it has come from the social media. Large part of it has come from the movements and details which have been let out either by the actor or people close to the actor or media or popularity or whatever you call it. And they have been allowed to pass on this sort of information in public domain, out of which there are tools which can give you very specific details regarding timing, regarding patterns, regarding predictability, regarding contacts and variety of others. One thing is very, very clear that anybody connected to Salman Khan is in danger. This is absolutely not a danger. One would talk about if, you know, celebrities, for them, it's a public platform to reach out to their fans or to, you know, reach out to have any collaborations. But again, I doubt if there are any real-time information that is shared with them unless and until, you know, they do a live on their, you know, social media handles. See, these are not the days of only real-time information. There are two pieces of information for the information of the audience, which one was given by Iran and I think. One was given by Ukraine from the state perspective and the open source intelligence proved it to be wrong. So open source intelligence is a very very important tool and how well and how much it is being utilized we don't know. Now there would be some 15-20 actors in Mumbai who would fairly fall into this target. Have we done their threat perception? We have done their threat perception. Then why a person like Tiger Shroff was carrying no security whatsoever, whether the Bombay police has been regularly in touch with these people, these are very high profile targets. Let me take that up with Mr. Krishna Hegde because Krishnaji, I believe Tiger Shroff met with the deputy chief minister and apparently in that interaction, he told him that he was clueless, that he doesn't know why he was targeted. he's never received any extortion call but was he actually on the hit list and if at all if this planning of this attack was happening for the last two months what happened to the intel sources see first of all tiger shroff is a very non-controversial person he does not talk you know about other people he speaks to himself his fitness and his games and so is his father jackie shroff who is a very lovable actor who we don't know since decades he has also been non-controversial. And just to say that, you know, someone connected to Salman Khan is going to be under target. I don't think that is true, though the video claims so, because I think half the industry, everybody in the film industry knows Salman Khan, half of Bandra knows Salman Khan, and so many people in India know Salman Khan. And all of them should have been targeted by Tiger Shroff. And if you look at the list from, you know, Guru Randhawa to AP Dhillon, to, you know, Ranveer Singh, Rohit Shetty, some of them have not even worked with Salman Khan. They have all been threatened in the past. However, I, you know, would say that the way they are hiring these 18, 20-year-olds to carry out a shootout, there needs to be some, you know, intelligence inputs which should be taken from other states as well because now this gang is claiming to have between 200 and 700 shooters and henchmen uh on their payroll and this is not a very great time however our honorable chief minister has clearly said that we are asking for the custody of Lawrence Bishnoi and the legal process is on and also ignatian and both of them have assured him all the protection that the Mumbai police can provide. So I think these are very strange things because in the 1960s, we had dons like Ajit Mastan and even actors used to go and attend his wedding, maybe take finances from him. And in the 80s, you had the D-Gang where they used to finance something and they were seen at their parties or cricket matches. But I think Everything changed after 1993, after the bomb blast, where those bombs had to go out of India. And the one who associated with these bombs was the anti-national. Suddenly, the D-Gang coming up and terrorizing people. I don't think the nexus of the gang have again come. Are you talking about, Krishnaji, any political patronage when it comes to the underworld? Because if the D gang is gone, is this the revival of the B gang now as it is being called? No, I don't think so. Because a couple of years ago, I was also threatened by an international gangster for two years. And I did not know, but I put someone in jail and he happened to be a middleman or henchman of that international gangster. So I think in social life, you are always encountering such issues. but actually to target Tiger Shroff is something like shocking because it's a really non-controversial style and a very simple and down-to-earth style. No, again, that doesn't give an explanation enough, no Maheshji? If someone is simple, if someone is non-controversial, then what made him as an easy target? Yeah, absolutely. This is a big question. If prominent figures like Tiger Shroff, in this case, if they are not safe, what about the common people? We have seen a series of such disturbing incidents involving prominent public figures, right from Baba Siddiqui's murder, firing outside Salman Khan's house, Rohit Shetty's house, then at Tiger Shroff recently. So, the question is what precautionary measures the government is being taken, you know, to curb all these incidents and to identify and prosecute all these organized crime syndicates who are operating transnationally. And even for that matter, some of them are operating from sitting inside the jail and that too thousands of miles away from our city. So this is about the public safety And the government's accountability Is it not that the Home Ministry is not able to handle this? Don't you think that our Chief Minister Who is the Home Minister also Is overburdened? I believe he is handling seven portfolios And is it realistic for one person to handle such a crucial portfolio While handling all other important responsibilities? doesn't Maharashtra require a new full-time dedicated Home Minister to handle such problems? So let me take up that question with Atulji. Atulji, coming to you last because it is significant that you, you know, take up all of the questions there because you have given additional security now to Tiger Shroff but if it is Tiger today then who next? Now one thing you should appreciate that with the arrest of the culprit in just 12 hours, Don't you think there is a mind working behind it? The home minister has been relentlessly looking at all the cyber things, cyber safety and the installation of CCTV has been taken up by Devendra Fadnavis' government. We are not like the earlier government where the criminals like Vaze they were put into police and they were obliterating the witnesses. Here a sensitive chief minister like Devendra Fadnavis and he has promised yesterday the mastermind will be brought to book and he's taking the help over the state also and so this 12 hours arrest is not this has been done by the government that should be appreciated but at the same time there should be safety in future that whoever the government should act more more intelligently, but here at the same time, and now I tell you one thing, 20 teams are deployed to look into the various angles of this crime. So this government, just to say that Devendra Fadnavis has got so many portfolios, he's capable of doing it. And he will give you the result. And his police department has already given results that three of them been nabbed from Kota. How did this happen? With the support from Rajasthan government and with the police from Mumbai, they have helped and that is the reason they are caught. So further things will happen. It's a shocking incident. Media highlights when the celebrity is there, but this government is sensitive even to a small crime in the city of Mumbai and relentlessly working for that. But here also in that case... No, sir, we are just putting out the facts on the table and we are not, you know, differentiating between a celebrity and a non-celebrity in any case but yes but Sanjay sir no doubt when it comes to the work of the police and you know how fast they have reacted and how they have coordinated with the police from other states as well of course that needs to be appreciated and commended but why are we waiting for an incident to happen for action to be taken that's also all as I said all the aspects and all the angles are being taken into consideration Let me take up that question to Sanjay sir. Yes, sir. So, 100% it has to be appreciated and commended upon and also kudos to the state government that they have acted so swiftly. Nonetheless, the story or the meat of the matter is that this is the least they could have done. Had they done anything less than this, it was basically sitting on their head and they were pushed to do this and notwithstanding this, I think the city would have been a much a much more greater fear cycle. That's point number one. The second part is that post-incident and post-crime, congratulating governments all across the country, that does not serve any purpose whatsoever. That is what I have seen in the last 32 years in service and even outside of service. Thirdly, the threat perception today of people who are likely to be impacted, that Tiger Shroff is a very nice soul and Jackie Shroff is a nice person, all that notwithstanding. Now this is the people, the weakest link where these gangsters come to and this we have been saying over and over again. A simple question is, have we been able to lay our hands on the complete organizational mechanism of this gang or not? That's point number one. Point number two, these three people, how they have come together, how they have landed in Bombay and how this has happened the way it has happened. It was in the case of Baba Siddiqui also. So every time we should not come, we should be woke enough to get into this detail. And very importantly, which is being talked about, the country also needs to understand as to whether somebody in a high prison jail in India is able to do this or the government should come out clean and tell us that there is no communication left whatsoever in whichever prisons these people are holed up. and there is no communication left and they have nothing to do with any of this. Anusha, does it actually give a sense of uncertainty because what really happens next? Because people have lost their lives. I mean, this incident, as far as Tiger Shroff is concerned, I mean, great, he escaped unhurt, but the situation could have been otherwise as well. Yeah, we are responding headline to headline. And what has happened to the other guy who was injured? Aren't we talking about him? we have no idea what is happening to the other person he's a commoner driver he received medical treatment and there was another bystander who was also injured yes yes they received but we are not talking about him in the debate and he is the real common man who is at risk because when a person is shooting one they pick up amateurs from the street who need chiller and they use them as a person to kill the celebrity but the person does not understand the difference between a bystander a driver an auto rickshaw and the celebrity so everybody is at risk you and I are as much as risk maybe it could be at an event it could be at a public event it could be at Shah Rukh Khan's birthday or Amitabh Bachchan's birthday it's not just about the celebrity here it is about us being at risk and instead of responding there should be proactiveness from the government side where we need to see what is this and why is it happening and I mean I'm sure our honorable police force is working towards it but why is there a response why is it in advance it's not about this government or that government it's about us as common people are we safe and every time somebody wants to send a message they just pick up a gun and shoot a celebrity that cannot happen that has to stop before it is even thought about that is why we have an intelligence force this is the era where interpol should be working no we should know where they are planning for around the world Krishnan ji, would you want to respond to that, sir? Because when questions are raised, yes, of course, commendable work that has been done by the police, but it needs to be nipped in the bud. I mean, the pictures that we see, one of the shooter's weapon did not go off. And thankfully, that probably saved the life of Tiger. No, no, obviously, there should be more proactiveness in this. You know, there has to be a level of police informers. There should be a statewide, interstate, you know, intelligence sharing network. There should also be, you know, earlier they used to have a public police committee. There was a Mohalla committee in place earlier. I think all that is missing now. I think the government should step up all these methods to see that, you know, we can say Tiger Shroff is safe now, but why did they come there in the first place to shoot him? So that should have been nipped in the bud. and I think there has to be more proactiveness on all fronts whether it is setting up these committees whether it is having informers whether now this guy Rehan who has already been he has already shot someone else in the past and how did he land up in Mumbai so there has to be some intelligence on these criminals which are shared nationwide and you know now in the riots in Delhi there was this face recognition device which was used. I think these devices need to be used technically and technologically we are far superior. I think all these methods have to be used. I think AI has also come in. A lot of new methods have come in to identify criminals as we are doing in the airport or in the immigration. I think this kind of vigilance you are saying that needs to be stepped up. But Mahesh, your question also is when it comes to providing security now that you know tiger straws the security that has been increased there are mega stars as well uh that have high level security they can you know also have private security as well but anybody who is a celebrity or not let's in the way you know talk about celebrities they don't know if they are going to be the possible next target what are they going to do higher uh you know when it comes to more you know security have more bouncers with them i mean this could happen anywhere and at least at the end of the day they are public figures See, this is practically not possible, Amita, because if you know, one of the associates of Vishnu, he has claimed the responsibility of this attack. And he has mentioned it on a social media post that he will not leave or they will not leave anybody who works with Salman Khan. How many people must be working with Salman Khan? Hundreds of them. That would be practically half of the, more than half of the Bollywood industry. exactly so how is the government or the police department going to provide the security to each and every one of them so it is practically not possible and secondly i would like to tell you one thing here i appreciate the police's hard work and their efficiency and they nab the culprits and you know hardly 12 hours or what but before the incident where was the intelligence network see how are these transnational gangs able to repeatedly recruit arm and deploy the you know these operatives into mumbai's high security zones like bandra or they don't get any information see as you said they are carrying out raids of the multiple places for seven days so police doesn't get a hint of it so we have to consider these points also i mean atulji when we speak of the shooters that they hired i mean 35 000 rupees is enough to kill a person. And you have individuals who are barely, you know, at the end of their teens. I mean, how gullible, you know, these individuals, these youth become when it comes to falling to such traps. It is so true. I appreciate, you know, these things have to be looked into that. Now, here CCTV is not enough. CCTV is installed all over the city. That is the reason we've been able to nab them but the police will now look into the other angles also as my other spokesman of that Mr. Mahesh that face recognition and all these things Devendra Patnavi has got all these things on his mind and very soon you'll see the result and he wants the mastermind to be nabbed very soon this is his conviction and he will be able to do it well Sanjay sir I believe more than cctvs it is the individuals the fans rather and with their mobile phones are adding more angles to the videos that may have happened of the attack no this one is the angle part of it the second which my panelist is talking about what cctv is doing let me tell you with all amount of clarity that the use of cctv cctv video analytics and real-time dynamic intelligence would be one of the lowest in the world there was a terrorist who started from Hyderabad went all throughout Delhi the whole day and he sat down in Chandni Chowk car park and he created a bomb and detonated the bomb right outside Chandni Chowk at 5.30 in the evening when the name of the person was known, the vehicle number was known and the face was also known. This is the fate of CCTV facial recognition. When it comes to a Jantar Mantra, there's a different sort of affair. Let's not get into that. So the capability of CCTV technology on the real-time intelligence is as good as we in this country but for traffic violations. Otherwise, once the shooting happens or somebody is carrying the weapon or there is some discrepancy, the system should have told them, right? Finally, it's the human being who is going there. Nothing which has emanated of the system. But sir, wouldn't that be an enormous task? I mean, tracking individuals and yes, because look at the population and the festive season, all of the areas are already overcrowded. Now, you are talking about Juhu and Bandra. Those are high sensitive areas. What is so sensitive about that what is the nature of checks you have what is the nature of controls you have you literally don't have anything you just talk you have high and top mega stars just barely living meters away from the site no but the high sensitive means that the area has to respond in that manner as far as the security is concerned is it a high security zone if it is a high security zone you tell me the parameters on which is the high security zone and then we are talking about the threat that anybody connected to Salman Khan. So it is half of Bombay. This is the job of the police. This is the job of the intelligence agency to zero it down, understand the threat perception of people. One which is likely, one which is unlikely. There are a variety of things which happen in the back end. Everything cannot come out in the open. And there is something called open source intelligence on which police forces across the globe work. So Krishnaji, will you admit that there have been certain lapses as well i mean we are talking about places and areas i mean that is full of VIPs you also have the residences of megastars barely meters away from the attack site so where exactly did the lapse happen and this is right in the middle of festive season when the security itself is uh you know doubled or tripled at least he uh sanjay ji has already said that there are a lot of things which happen in the back end which maybe a common man doesn't know about and therefore you know the police here within the space of 12 to 15 hours have tracked down these criminals with the help of the Gujarat police, the Rajasthan police, the Delhi police and the Mumbai police. So obviously there is some, you know, intelligence sharing which has happened. A lot of maybe, you know, mobile towers have been tracked and then they have been caught. It's just not so simple for a team to go there and nab those people. There is a lot of hard work and intelligence behind this. But I would still say that for a city like Mumbai, we've seen some of the worst. We've seen some, you know, terrorist attacks, we've seen bombings, we've seen bus bombings, train bombings, and the city has recovered. But that is not the case. Whichever government it is, we need to beef up our system because we need to, prevention is better than cure, that is what is my opinion. Right, Atulji, that's the point, preventive measures. You need to make sure that an incident similar to like this, I mean, celebrity or non-celebrity does not happen. I agree with Mr. Hegre 100% and we keep on, you know, as far as the government is concerned, we look into the avenues which can help. And as the gentleman said, I don't know his name, the policeman, Sanjay, I really appreciate that so many things have to be done. this government will be acting very very swiftly and in the fastest way to do many other things which can help track the culprits and the first thing that is on the mind of Mr. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that he wants the mastermind this time and he will do everything possible in as far as having the mastermind of the cyber stock. My concluding statement sir because again When it comes to dreaded gangsters and if they are, you know, the pawns are arrested, the masterminds are in jail, then how are these incidents taken? Exactly. This is where the, you know, people have a doubt in their minds about the political patronage. Because if the people sitting inside the jails are organizing such heinous crimes here in Mumbai, which are hundreds of miles away, sometimes the Vishnu is in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat or sometimes in Tihar jail in Gujarat. So, who's providing them all this infrastructure, you know, to carry out such incidents? So, we have to think about this and government or the BJP should come forward and tell the people what measures they are taking to, you know, identify and dismantle. Not just interested, even when it comes to transnational crimes. Yes, Anusha, concluding statement. i just wanted to say one thing that we should not let these jokers become famous because they are targeting her a guy cannot become famous because he's picking up one target after another and claiming credit for it you know and then he is becoming a part of every national debate and we are letting unknown people and criminals become famous on air time or rather exposing them yeah but that should be something that they should not think that this is the best way to come into the limelight because the system is not equipped enough to know before they attack. And we talk about it after the attack. That is where the system will tighten the loopholes. No ma'am? Yes. That is where the system will tighten the loopholes. I mean that is why you have Atulji and Krishnaji here sitting because they are there to answer on part of the government. Yes. Sir, last 10 seconds. If there is a lapse, the government and the police should accept and set it right. It has become customary in this nation that no government, no police accept any lapse Okay, precisely, sir. I mean, yes, you can pat your back, but if the situation would have been very different, then today we would have been having a very different debate altogether. But hoping that, you know, preventive measures are taken in time so that similar incident to this does not repeat. Thank you very much, all of you, for joining us here on the open debate. Thank you very much.