Three more suspects remanded in Tiger Shroff shooting investigation

Three men suspected of supplying weapons for the attack on Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff’s car were remanded in police custody until 28 October after appearing in a Mumbai court on Friday, Hindustan Times reported. Police are still investigating who directed the attack.

Gunmen fired at Shroff’s car near Juhu on 18 October. His driver and another person were wounded; police said the actor sustained no bullet injury. At an earlier hearing on Wednesday, three other men suspected of carrying out the shooting were remanded until 31 October, according to The Indian Express. Police told that court they had yet to recover the weapons and were investigating the alleged conspiracy and motive. Defence lawyers opposed further custody, saying the men had already been questioned.

At Friday’s hearing, police alleged that the second group supplied weapons and other logistical help. A police custody application described the attack as an attempt to gain financial and territorial dominance and create fear, Hindustan Times reported. That remains a police allegation, not a finding about who ordered the shooting or its effect on the film industry.

A social-media post purportedly from an associate of the Bishnoi gang and a separate recording claimed responsibility, the BBC reported. Mumbai police had not verified the claims or established the gang’s involvement.

The shooting has renewed attention on Bollywood’s history with organised crime. In the 1990s and early 2000s, criminal networks financed films and demanded protection money. The BBC noted other recent attacks involving film figures, but said there was little evidence that such networks had regained their former influence over the industry’s finances and decisions. Former Mumbai crime branch chief D Sivanandhan cautioned against equating today’s threat with the old underworld: “This is not the Mumbai mafia which we know in the last 60 years,” he told the BBC. “This is something else.”