The Prithvi Shaw, Sapna Gill Selfie Saga: Here’s What Happened According To Police

India opening batter Prithvi Shaw was presumably manhandled and his vehicle was assaulted with a baseball bat outside a hotel in the Santacruz location of Mumbai, following an argument with a female social networks influencer Sapna Gill and her buddy Shobit Thakur after the batter declined to click selfies with the influencer. The occurrence occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. The Oshiwara Police has actually detained Gill and 7 others have actually been scheduled for supposedly attempting to daunt the cricketer by harming his automobile and threatening to link him in a phony case.

Gill is a social networks influencer with over 2 lakh fans on Instagram and likewise has an online existence on applications like Josh, a video-sharing app, Snapchat and YouTube. She comes from Chandigarh and lives in Mumbai.

As per Police authorities, the influencer was contacted us to the police headquarters for query on Thursday and she was put under arrest after initial queries developed her supposed participation in the event.

Gill’s attorney argued that the influencer was a fan of Shaw and wished to take a selfie with him. The cricketer was intoxicated and misbehaved with her. He likewise implicated the batter of attacking Gill with a wood bat. Cops likewise stated that Gill and Thakur remained in a drunk state throughout the occurrence.

A problem about the event was submitted by Shaw’s pal Ashish Yadav, who is his flatmate for the last 3 years and runs a coffee shop.

As per the grievance, the cricketer was approached by Gill and Thakur for a selfie at the hotel and Shaw at first permitted them to get clicked with him. When they firmly insisted on getting more photos with him, Shaw turned down the need, following which Gill and her buddy began to misbehave with the cricket in an inebriated condition. On seeing this, the hotel supervisor stepped in and asked both Gill and Thakur to abandon the properties.

Following this event, Shaw and Yadav had supper at the hotel. When they stepped out, they saw Thakur holding a baseball bat in his hand. The implicated went on to assault the windscreen of the cars and truck. Shaw was likewise manhandled by Gill. The cricketer was moved to another vehicle while Yadav and others drove his lorry to Oshiwara.

Yadav observed that 3 motorbikes and a white-coloured vehicle were chasing their car. At 4 AM, the chasers assaulted his vehicle while it was taking a U-Turn near a gas pump on Link Road.

Thakur was among the individuals going after the lorry and assaulted its windscreen with a bat. The 6 individuals on bikes in addition to Gill and Thakur, who were both being in an automobile, mistreated Yadav and his good friends. Following this, Yadav took the vehicle to Oshiwara police headquarters.

Thakur, who was among them, broke the rear windscreen of the automobile with the baseball bat. The 6 individuals on motorbikes in addition to Gill and Thakur, who remained in the automobile, mistreated Yadav and those accompanying him. After that, Yadav took the automobile to the Oshiwara police headquarters.

The 8 implicated followed Yadav to the station and threatened him to pay Rs50,000 to settle the problem otherwise she would lodge a phony cops problem versus them, based on authorities. Following this, Yadav submitted a grievance versus the implicated. Oshiwara Police signed up a case under areas 143 (illegal assembly), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation) and others of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) based upon the grievance.

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