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Police efficiently concluded a virtually three-hour-long dramatic hostage scenario, safely rescuing 17 youngsters and two adults held at a studio within the Powai space by an individual who died from a bullet damage sustained throughout police motion.
Read the total story: 19 hostages rescued from Mumbai studio, captor shot lifeless by police
The tense drama unfolded round 1:30 p.m. after the Powai police station obtained an alert that an individual, recognized as Rohit Arya (50), had taken 17 youngsters hostage inside RA Studio within the Mahavir Classic constructing. The youngsters, girls and boys between the ages of 10 and 12, had been referred to as to the studio for an audition for an internet collection that had been ongoing for 2 days.
This would be the first of its form scenario lately during which a lot of youngsters had been held hostage, a police official stated.
Similar incidents
In the final decade or so, the monetary capital has witnessed a number of hostage-taking situations.
2010 Andheri hostage incident
In March 2010, a retired customs officer, Harish Marolia, had taken a 14-year-old woman hostage in suburban Andheri (West). The 60-year-old had held the woman, Himani, captive in his flat. Marolia had taken the step after an altercation with members of the housing society the place the 2 resided, the official recalled.
Minutes earlier than taking the woman hostage, Marolia had objected to development work on one of many flooring in his constructing. He had additionally threatened the housing society’s secretary by firing within the air.
The hostage drama got here to a violent finish when Marolia killed {the teenager} and was additionally subsequently shot lifeless by police.
2008 double-decker bus hostage incident
In November 2008, a 25-year-old gunman from Bihar, Rahul Raj, held commuters in a double-decker civic-run bus hostage throughout the automobile’s journey from Andheri. As the bus reached Bail Bazar in Kurla, practically 100 policemen surrounded the bus.
When police requested Raj to give up, he threw a foreign money be aware at them on which he had written that he had come to “kill” Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray, whose occasion had launched an anti-migrant agitation in Mumbai concentrating on North Indians.
Police shot lifeless the 25-year-old, bringing an finish to the disaster.
Nagpur Assistant Commissioner of Police on earlier hostage conditions
“In hostage conditions, an important factor is to save lots of the life and guarantee minimal injury. Negotiations are achieved preserving these two goals in thoughts,” Shailni Sharma, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nagpur, defined whereas speaking to PTI over the telephone.
Ms. Sharma was the primary girl officer of the Mumbai police who was despatched for coaching to London for dealing with hostage conditions after the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults.
She was additionally referred to as to coach National Security Guard (NSG) commandos in 2022 in efficiently dealing with hostage situations.
“When there isn’t any headway in negotiations (with the hostage-taker), the operation workforce takes selections as per the necessity of the time,” Ms. Sharma stated.
In the 2010 Andheri hostage incident, Ms. Sharma was referred to as to barter with Marolia, however by then, a police workforce had barged contained in the flat the place he had taken the woman captive and opened hearth at her.
In 2013 and 2017, the police officer saved two ladies, who had been attempting to finish their lives, by speaking and convincing them to not take the acute step.
During anti-CAA and NRC protests in Mumbai, Ms. Sharma was posted as senior police inspector in Nagpada and dealt with the agitations by means of talks.
