Social Media Influencer Sapna Gill and Others Arrested for Assaulting Indian Cricketer Prithvi Shaw

Sapna Gill, Shobhit Thakur, and 6 others were booked under several IPC sections by Oshiwara Police for allegedly assaulting Prithvi Shaw, the Indian cricketer.

Written by: Arjita Gupta

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: 2023-02-17 08:35:48

A video about Sapna Gill and Prithvi Shaw, the Indian cricketer and batsman, has gone viral online. Sapna Gill, a social media influencer with her friend Shobhit Thakur and 6 other people have been arrested by the Oshiwara police for allegedly intimidating and assaulting the cricketer and his friends. Gill seems to have manhandled Shaw for not allowing them to click selfies with him, while her aids damaged the batsman’s vehicle, along with persistent argument, threats for lodging a false police case, and demanding Rs. 50,000 to settle the matter.

Sapna Gill has more than 2,20,000 followers on Instagram and is a social media influencer. She is residing in Mumbai and hails from Chandigarh. Gill has starred in titles such as Mera Watan, Kashi Amarnath, Ravi Kishan and Dinesh Lal Yadav, and Nirhua Chalal London. She also had a wide online presence on YouTube, Snapchat, and Josh. A video on social media has gone viral. It shows Prithvi Shaw getting manhandled.

Ashish Yadav, the flatmate (for the last three years in Bandra) and friend of Shaw, and owner of a café lodged a complaint about the event at the police. On Thursday afternoon, Gill was summoned to the police station for preliminary inquiries, which hinted at her inclusion in the offense. Thus, Gill was arrested by the officials. But her advocate said that Gill was looking for only a selfie with Shaw as she was a fan of the cricketer.

However, as per the lawyer, the cricketer was not sober and misbehaved with Gill, even misusing his power and position by assaulting her with a wooden bat. The police said that it was Thakur and Gill who was drunk at the time of the incident. According to the complaint by Yadav, Gill, and Thakur went over to the hotel to Shaw for a selfie and initially, he permitted them for it. But the duo kept on insisting the cricketer for additional selfies, which Shaw did not consent to.

Following this, Thakur and Gill began to misbehave and argue with Shaw and both were supposedly inebriated. Seeing the commotion, the hotel manager stepped in and asked Thakur and Gill to vacate the premises. Thereafter, Yadav and Shaw had dinner at the venue and when stepping out of the hotel with their friend, they found Thakur with a baseball bat in his hand. And the accused then attacked the vehicle with the baseball bat after Shaw and Yadav sat in the car. The windshield of the vehicle is damaged, while Gill also manhandled the cricketer.

As trouble heightened, Yadav and others went in the vehicle to Oshiwara, while Shaw was shifted to another car. According to Yadav, he said a white-colored car and three motorcycles were chasing their vehicle. And the followers around 4 am then took a U-turn at a petrol pump on Link Road and attacked his car. Among all, Thakur broke the car’s rear windshield with the baseball bat. Gill and Thakur in the car and six people on motorcycles then abused Yadav and others who were with him. Then Yadav reached the Oshiwara police station with his car.

Gill and Thakur with other 6 people also went to the Oshiwara police station. Here Gill argued with Yadav and threatened that he should pay Rs. 50,000 to settle the matter. Otherwise, she will register a false complaint with the police against them. Hearing this, it was then Yadav lodged a complaint against all who attacked them. According to the complaint, a case has been registered with Oshiwara police for all eight accused under IPC (Indian Penal Code) sections 148 (rioting), 143 (unlawful assembly), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 384 (extortion).