Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw was allegedly manhandled and his car was attacked with a baseball bat outside a hotel in Mumbai’s Santacruz. He argued with a woman called Sapna Gill, who is a social media influencer and her male friend Shobhit Thakur after the batsman refused to click selfies with her. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday(15 February).  The Oshiwara Police has arrested Gill and at least eight people have been named in a police case for allegedly charging cricketer Prithvi, breaking his BMW windshield and demanding Rs 50,000 by threatening to file a fake police case.

Controversy or Planned Event?

According to Police officials, Gill was called to the police station for inquiries on Thursday afternoon. After preliminary inquiries established her alleged involvement in the offence, she was placed under arrest.

As per the complaint, Thakur and Gill approached cricketer Shaw for a selfie at the hotel. Originally, the cricketer allowed them to do so. But they insisted on clicking more selfies with him, a demand that Shaw turned down. After that, Gill and Thakur started arguing and misbehaving with the cricketer. The complaint further said that both of them were in a drunk condition. On seeing this, the manager of the hotel interfered and asked the duo, who were demanding selfies with Shaw, to leave the premises.

After this incident, Shaw and Yadav had dinner at the hotel. But while they were stepping out of the place along with their friend, they saw Thakur holding a baseball bat in hand. After they sat in their car, the accused attacked the windshield of the vehicle with the baseball bat. Shaw was also manhandled by Gill.

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Sensing more trouble, the cricketer was shifted to another car while Yadav and others drove his vehicle to Oshiwara. Yadav saw three motorcycles and a white-coloured car chasing their vehicle. Around 4 am, those following him attacked his car when it was taking a U-turn near a petrol pump on Link Road. Thakur, who was one of them, broke the rear windshield of the car with the baseball bat. The six persons on motorcycles along with Gill and Thakur, who were in the car, abused Yadav and those accompanying him. After that, Yadav took the car to the Oshiwara police station.

Who is Sapna Gill?

Sapna Gill is a social media influencer and has over 2,20,000 followers on Instagram. She starred in titles such as Kashi Amarnath, Nirhua Chalal London, Mera Watan, Ravi Kishan and Dinesh Lal Yadav. Gill hails from Chandigarh and is a resident of Mumbai. Sapna has her online presence on platforms such as the video-sharing app Josh, multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat and YouTube. However, her alleged forceful attempt to get a selfie and extortion bid has landed the actress behind bars. Sapna was arrested by Mumbai police after Prithvi lodged a written complaint in this connection.