THREE people, including a minor, allegedly involved in the firing at actor Tiger Shroff were detained on Monday in Rajasthan’s Kota city from the Pune-Jaipur Superfast Express, police said. Kota Superintendent of Police (SP) Tejaswani Gautam said at a press conference that one of the accused was in touch with Anil Pandit, an alleged associate of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack in an unverified social media post. The three suspects were picked up by Kota city police at the railway station in an operation that lasted around 15 minutes. Their plan was to flee to Nepal, police said. Two of the accused have been identified as Ritik alias Roshan from Begusarai in Bihar and Rehan from Haryana’s Sonipat. The third accused is a minor, SP Gautam said. Preliminaryquestioning revealed that Anil Pandit was in contact with Rehan, she said.

 

The accused were travelling on the Pune-Jaipur train that reached Kota station at 10.17 am. Mumbai police shared inputs with Gautam, who immediately alerted the district special team. She formed different teams. The train was searched thoroughly and the three accused were caught in the general coach of the train, police said. Anti-Gangster Task Force and Railway Protection Force personnel also assisted in the operation. The accused were brought to the SP office, where primary questioning was done, Gautam said. The suspects told police that they boarded the train after “executing the crime”. They were planning to take a bus from Jaipur to Delhi and then cross the border to reach Nepal, the SP said. No weapon was recovered from the suspects, she said.