India’s star batsman Prithvi Shaw got caught in a new controversy on Thursday. He has accused social media influencer Sapna Gill of manhandling her.
Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw On Thursday, once again he was seen to be in trouble. Some of his videos are going viral on social media, in which a girl is seen scuffling with him. After this whole day drama, finally in the evening the girl involved in scuffle was arrested. The police confirmed this by giving an official statement. Till now Shaw himself has not come forward and said anything on this matter.
According to officials, the incident took place when Prithvi Shaw refused a selfie with a female social media influencer, following which he had an argument with the said woman and her male friend. Following the incident that took place in the early hours of Wednesday, police arrested social media influencer Sapna Gill on Thursday evening, while a case was registered against her friend Shobhit Thakur and six others for rioting and extortion.
Know the whole matter in detail
- Sapna Gill’s lawyer alleged Shaw was drunk and said the cricketer abused his position and reputation to attack the influencer with a wooden bat, while the police said Gill and Thakur were in an inebriated condition at the time of the incident .
- A video of this incident has surfaced on social media, in which a scuffle can be seen with Shaw. An official said that the incident took place when the cricketer had gone to have dinner with a businessman friend at a hotel located near the domestic airport in Santacruz. Ashish Yadav, a friend of Shaw and the owner of the cafe, lodged a complaint in this regard. Yadav has been living with Shaw in Bandra for the last three years.
- The officer said that as per the complaint, Thakur and Gill approached Shaw for a selfie. The official said that initially the cricketer allowed him to do so. However, when the two insisted on taking more selfies with them, Shaw declined the request, the officer said. The officer said that after this Gill and Thakur started arguing and misbehaving with the cricketer.
- He said that in the complaint it has been said that both (Gil and Thakur) were in an inebriated condition. Seeing this, the hotel manager intervened and asked the two men seeking selfies with Shaw to leave the premises, he added.
- He said that after the incident Shaw and Yadav had dinner at the hotel but when Shaw was leaving the place with his friend, he saw Thakur with a baseball bat in his hand. He said that after Shaw and Yadav got into the car, the accused attacked the windshield with a baseball bat. He said Shaw was transferred to another car, while Yadav and others took his vehicle to Oshiwara.
- He told that Yadav saw three motorcycles and a white colored car following his vehicle. Around 4 am, people following him attacked his car when he was taking a U-turn near a petrol pump on Link Road. The officer said that one of the Thakurs broke the rear window of the car with a baseball bat.
- The police officer said that six persons, including Gill and Thakur, who were on the motorcycle, and others in the car, abused Yadav and those accompanying him. The officer said that after this Yadav took the car to Oshiwara police station. He said that the eight accused also followed him there. The police officer said that Gill started the argument and asked Yadav to pay Rs 50,000 to settle the matter, failing which she would file a false police complaint against him.
- Following this, Yadav gave a complaint against the accused and on the basis of his complaint, the Oshiwara police registered a case against the eight accused under sections 143, 148, 384, 506 and other sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the official said. Did.
- Meanwhile, Gill’s lawyer Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh said that his client was innocent and had only requested Shaw to take a selfie. He alleged that Shaw was in an inebriated state at the time and had a scuffle and attacked Gill with a wooden bat. Deshmukh alleged that Shaw misused his position and lodged an FIR against Gill and his friend Thakur.
- Deshmukh claimed, Sapna Gill and her friend (Thakur) were fans of Prithvi Shaw and requested him for a selfie. However, he (Shaw) refused, he was drunk at that time, he (Shaw) abused and manhandled him.