Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw was allegedly manhandled and his automobile attacked with a baseball bat exterior a resort in Mumbai’s Santacruz after an argument with a lady social media influencer, Sapna Gill, and her male pal Shobhit Thakur after the batsman refused to click on selfies along with her. The incident passed off within the early hours of Wednesday.
The Oshiwara Police has arrested Gill and booked seven others for allegedly making an attempt to intimidate Shaw by damaging his automobile and threatening to implicate him in a false case.
Who’s Sapna Gill?
Sapna Gill is a social media influencer and has over 2,20,000 followers on Instagram.
Gill has starred in such titles as Kashi Amarnath, Nirhua Chalal London, Mera Watan, Ravi Kishan and Dinesh Lal Yadav.
Gill hails from Chandigarh and is a resident of Mumbai.
Gill has her on-line presence on platforms such because the video-sharing app Josh, multimedia instantaneous messaging app Snapchat and YouTube.
Concerning the brawl
Police officers mentioned Gill was known as to the police station for inquiries on Thursday afternoon. After preliminary inquiries established her alleged involvement within the offence, she was positioned underneath arrest.
Nonetheless, Gill’s advocate has claimed that his shopper was a fan of Shaw and simply wished a selfie with him however the cricketer was drunk and misbehaved along with her.
Gill’s lawyer accused Shaw of being drunk and alleged that the cricketer assaulted the influencer with a picket bat in a “misuse of energy and place”, whereas the police mentioned that Gill and Thakur have been in an inebriated situation on the time of the incident.
A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, which exhibits Shaw being manhandled.
A criticism on this connection was lodged by Shaw’s pal and flatmate Ashish Yadav, who runs a restaurant. Yadav has been staying with Shaw at Bandra for the final three years.
As per the criticism, Thakur and Gill approached Shaw for a selfie on the resort. Initially, the cricketer allowed them to take action. However they insisted on clicking extra selfies with him, a requirement that Shaw turned down.
After that, Gill and Thakur began arguing and misbehaving with the cricketer. The criticism mentioned that each of them (Gill and Thakur) have been in an inebriated situation. On seeing this, the supervisor of the resort intervened and requested the duo, who have been demanding selfies with Shaw, to vacate the premises.
After this incident, Shaw and Yadav had dinner on the resort. However whereas they have been stepping out of the place together with their pal, they noticed Thakur holding a baseball bat in hand.
After they sat of their automobile, the accused attacked the windshield of the car with the baseball bat. Shaw was additionally manhandled by Gill.
Sensing extra hassle, the cricketer was shifted to a different automobile whereas Yadav and others drove his car to Oshiwara.
Yadav noticed three bikes and a white-coloured automobile chasing their car. Round 4am, these following him attacked his automobile when it was taking a U-turn close to a petroleum pump on Hyperlink Street.
Thakur, who was one among them, broke the rear windshield of the automobile with the baseball bat. The six individuals on bikes together with Gill and Thakur, who have been within the automobile, abused Yadav and people accompanying him. After that, Yadav took the automobile to Oshiwara police station.
The eight accused additionally adopted them there. Gill began arguing and threatened Yadav to pay ₹50,000 to settle the matter or else she would lodge a false police criticism towards them, the police official mentioned. After that, Yadav lodged a criticism towards the accused.
Primarily based on his criticism, the Oshiwara police registered a case towards the eight accused underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 143 (illegal meeting), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (prison intimidation) and others.
(With inputs from PTI)