The firing incident targeting ace director Rohit Shetty at his Juhu address has unveiled a sophisticated underworld scheme, with Mumbai Crime Branch piecing together the puzzle from arrests and confessions. The plot’s ingenuity lies in its logistics.
Arrestees transported a scooty from Pune to Mumbai, ditching it near the target site for the shooter to appropriate. The bike was supplied to them a week and a half earlier, under the command of Bishnoi gang’s elusive Shubham Lonkar, identified as the operation’s architect.
Directives flowed from Lonkar, specifying the scooty’s handoff and the precise venue for shots. Acquired by Aditya Gayki for Rs 30,000 in a rudimentary transaction from a Pune seller, the vehicle was parked by Gayki alongside Samarth Pomaji—neither privy to the shooter’s profile.
Such modular crime models, insulating layers of participants, have repeatedly stymied probes into gang activities. Custody yields names: Aditya Gyanshwar Gayki, Samarth Pomaji, Siddharth Deepak, Swapnil Bandu, each tethered to Lonkar’s network.
A fifth individual faces intense questioning, eyed as a linchpin. As revelations mount, the episode highlights vulnerabilities in high-profile security, spurring Crime Branch to fortify intelligence and pursue dismantle efforts against Bishnoi’s Mumbai tentacles.