Mumbai: How cops ended 2-hr ordeal, rescued hostages; what was accused's motive?

MUMBAI: Seventeen children and 2 adults rescued aft hostage concern successful powai studio. The 19 radical were kept hostage for astir 2 hours successful a workplace astatine the Mahavir Classik gathering successful Powai today.

They were rescued aft a constabulary inspector forced introduction into the workplace and seized an airgun and immoderate chemic from the detained suspect, identified arsenic Rohit Arya, Powai constabulary said. Joint Commissioner of Police (L&O) Satyanarayan Chaudhary said “prima facie the motive down the hostage was done by the fishy implicit immoderate enactment related dues pending”.

The fishy was taken to infirmary for aesculapian examination. Meanwhile, the rescued children were handed implicit to their parents. A squad from Powai and Sakinaka constabulary stations reached the spot pursuing a distress telephone received astatine 1.45 pm. The children, aged betwixt 13 and 17, had travel from antithetic parts of Maharashtra for an audition for an ad-shoot.DCP Datta Nalawade said that they are gathering accusation and volition beryllium questioning the antheral who was detained to cognize the motive down his act. The squad has seized an airgun and chemic from his possession.