Pistols used in Tiger Shroff firing recovered near Surat station; supplier arrested

The two pistols used in the October 18 firing on actor Tiger Shroff have been recovered near the Surat railway station even as police arrested the man who supplied one of them to the shooters. Pranjal Thakran, who was picked up in Indore on Saturday, is the 11th accused arrested in the case.

Police said the two shooters had tossed the pistols in the bushes near the railway tracks while on the run. They recovered a Turkish Zigana pistol and a country-made pistol, commonly called katta, along with ten live cartridges on Saturday.

The firearms and ammunition have been sent for forensic examination and ballistic testing to match them with the empty shell casings retrieved from the crime scene in Juhu.

Tiger Shroff's shooters received real-time updates, instructions based on media coverageAfter firing at Shroff’s car at close range, the shooters, recruited by the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, took a taxi from Kandivali in Mumbai to Surat. They alighted at a bus stand, from where they proceeded to the railway station. They dumped the weapons near the railway tracks before boarding a train to Delhi, said a police officer. Police were able to recover the pistols as one of the shooters had led them to the spot.