Overview
- Mumbai Police forced entry into Powai’s RA Studio and safely evacuated 17 children, a senior citizen and a civilian before shooting suspect Rohit Arya, who was later declared dead at a hospital.
- Officials said Arya fired an airgun at officers; police recovered an airgun, chemical substances, motion sensors and altered CCTV, and have ordered inquiries into the encounter and the setup.
- In a video released during the standoff, Arya claimed he sought answers over an alleged unpaid school-project concept rather than ransom, a claim state education officials dispute.
- Pune Cyber Police detailed how callers posing as law enforcement coerced an 82-year-old and his wife into transferring ₹1.19 crore and kept them on video for days; the man collapsed on 22 October and was pronounced dead.
- In Canada, masked gunmen killed businessman Darshan Singh Sahasi in Abbotsford as a Lawrence Bishnoi gang affiliate claimed responsibility online, following Ottawa’s recent terrorist designation of the network and drawing cross-border law-enforcement focus.