Prithvi Shaw Assault: Social Media Influencer Sapna Gill Despatched in Police Custody, Two Extra Arrested

Final Up to date: February 17, 2023, 22:27 IST

Social media influencer Sapna Gill has been arrested for allegedly manhandling Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw (Twitter Pictures)

Sapna Gill was produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s court docket on Friday.

Earlier within the day, a Justice of the Peace’s court docket remanded social media influencer Sapna Gill, arrested within the case on Thursday, in police custody until February 20.

Apart from authentic fees of rioting and extortion, Oshiwara Police additionally invoked Indian Penal Code part 387 (placing an individual in concern of dying or of grievous damage in an effort to commit extortion).

Whereas Gill’s buddy Shobhit Thakur and others are but to be traced, two of the accused who had allegedly chased the cricketer’s automobile as he headed for Oshiwara police station after the incident had been held on Friday, mentioned an official.

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The principle accused within the case had known as each these males to the spot, he mentioned, including that their position within the assault had been established.

On Thursday, based mostly on a grievance lodged by Shaw’s buddy and flatmate Ashish Yadav, Oshiwara Police registered a case towards Gill, her buddy Thakur and 6 others below Indian Penal Code sections 143 (illegal meeting), 148 (rioting), 384 (extortion), 506 (felony intimidation).

Gill was produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s court docket on Friday.

The incident had taken place on Wednesday. The investigating officer instructed the court docket that Thakur and Gill approached Shaw for a selfie on the resort. Initially, the cricketer obliged them. However once they insisted on clicking extra selfies, he declined, after which Gill and Thakur began misbehaving with the cricketer, he alleged.

The resort supervisor intervened and requested Gill and Thakur to depart premises.

Shaw and his associates then had dinner on the resort. After they had been stepping out, they noticed Thakur standing exterior with a baseball bat in hand, the official instructed the court docket, citing Yadav’s grievance.

After they sat of their automobile, the accused attacked its windshield 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, the IO instructed the Justice of the Peace.

Yadav then noticed three bikes and a white automobile chasing their car. Round four am, these following him attacked his automobile when it was taking a U-turn close to a petroleum pump on Hyperlink Highway. Thakur, who was one in every of them, broke the rear windshield with the baseball bat, the IO mentioned.

The six individuals on the bikes together with Gill and Thakur who had been in one other automobile abused Yadav, the IO added.

Yadav then took the automobile to Oshiwara police station. The eight accused additionally adopted them there. Gill demanded that Yadav pay Rs 50,000 to settle the matter or else she would lodge a false police grievance towards them, the investigating officer mentioned.

Whereas Gill’s lawyer denied all of the allegations, the social media influencer herself addressed the court docket instantly, stating that each one the allegations towards her had been false and “he (Shaw) hit me on the chest and arms.” On the declare that the incident occurred after she requested for a selfie with Shaw, Gill mentioned, “I have no idea him, nor I’ve ever seen him. I by no means requested for a selfie with him.” She additionally accused Shaw of being inebriated.