Overview
- Rohit Ary held about 17 children during auditions at RA Studio in Powai before Mumbai Police rescued them and sent the group for medical evaluation.
- Fire brigade crews broke a bathroom window to create entry for QRT officers; the suspect fired an airgun, an inspector returned fire, he was taken to hospital and declared dead.
- An official probe into the encounter has been ordered as the suspect’s video surfaced denying a terror motive and citing disputed grievances over an alleged unpaid education project, which state officials reject.
- In Abbotsford, Canada, Indian-origin businessman Darshan Singh Sahasi was killed in a daylight ambush captured on CCTV, with Lawrence Bishnoi affiliate Goldy Dhillon claiming responsibility following Canada’s recent terrorist designation of the network.
- Separate hazards persist, including a Pune “digital arrest” scam that cost an 82-year-old ₹1.19 crore before his October 22 collapse and Cyclone Montha’s landfall near Andhra’s coast with ongoing rain and marine advisories, as reports from Haiti attribute about 25 deaths to Cyclone Melissa.