Kamaal Rashid Khan.
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Mumbai: Actor and film critic Kamaal Rashid Khan – known as KRK – was arrested in the sensational firing case at a residential building in Andheri West in Mumbai.
The incident had taken place on 18 January.
Nabbed by the Oshiwara Police Station for the incident that triggered widespread outrage, Khan was produced before a Magistrate court on Saturday who remanded to police custody till 27 January.
It may be recalled that residents of Nalanda Society and the vicinity of Lokhandwala Back Road were shaken when two rounds were fired though there were no casualties.
Following a complaint by the society, a major probe involving multiple agencies was launched and finally zeroed in on KRK.
The rattled residents informed that they had heard loud bullet sounds and later discovered two bullet marks, on the walls of a flat and another on a wooden staircase, on the second and fourth floor.
A police team rushed there, questioned the neighbours, scanned the CCTV footage for leads, but found nothing and later summoned a forensics team in the probe as it was initially difficult to determine whether the rounds were fired from a fire-arm or an air-gun.
The case assumed shocking proportions after the forensics team report suggested that the bullets may have been shot from a bungalow nearby owned by KRK. Armed with this, a large team led by Senior Inspector of Oshiwara Sanjay Chavan, plus Crime Branch sleuths widened the probe.
After the weeklong investigations, the needle of suspicion pointed at KRK who was detained on Friday for questioning and arrested early on Saturday.
During the interrogation, KRK reportedly admitted that he was cleaning the licensed firearm and fired two test rounds to check its ‘functionality’.
He further claimed that he had actually aimed at a mangrove patch near his home, but the strong winds there may have caused the bullets to deflect and hit the adjoining residential building.