Mumbai Crime Branch on Friday arrested social activist Mauris Noronha’s bodyguard Amarendra Mishra after it initiated a probe following the homicide of Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Abhishek Ghosalkar throughout a Facebook Live session a day earlier, reported information company PTI.

According to police, Noronha suspected that Ghosalkar had implicated him in a rape case. Police stated that Noronha (48) used his bodyguard Amarendra Mishra’s licensed pistol to shoot Ghosalkar on Thursday night and later killing himself.

Mishra was arrested on Friday underneath part 29 (B) of the Arms Act – which offers with the offense of handing over a weapon to somebody with out ascertaining if the particular person is legally permitted to own it.

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The crime department of Mumbai police recorded the statements of Noronha’s relations, together with his spouse, and realized that he nursed a grudge towards Abhishek Ghosalkar, son of former MLA Vinod Ghosalkar and a loyalist of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena (UBT).

Noronha, who confronted prison circumstances, was earlier arrested in a rape case and spent practically 5 months behind bars. He suspected that the Sena chief implicated him within the rape case, and after popping out of jail he would ceaselessly say that he wouldn’t ‘spare’ Ghosalkar, the official stated, including that he first determined to win Ghosalkar’s belief by providing an olive department to him.

Here’s what we all know to this point:

1) Social activist Mauris Noronha allegedly shot Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Abhishek Ghosalkar throughout a Facebook Live session on Thursday.

2) He was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Friday.

3) Mauris Noronha suspected that Ghosalkar had implicated him in a rape case, police stated.

4) Noronha (48) used his bodyguard Amarendra Mishra’s licensed pistol to shoot Ghosalkar on Thursday night and later killed himself.

5) After questioning Mishra’s spouse, police got here to know that Naroha nursed a grudge towards Abhishek, the son of former MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, a loyalist of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena.

6) He was arrested in a rape case and spent practically 5 months behind bars and suspected that the Sena chief implicated him within the rape case, and after popping out of jail he would ceaselessly say that he wouldn’t ‘spare’ Ghosalkar.

7) Noronha, who is claimed to have taken his personal life, reportedly dedicated the act through the reside session on social media supposed to facilitate a decision between the 2 deceased people.

8) Following the homicide of Mauris Noronha, a heated political battle has erupted between the ruling and opposition events, and requires the resignation of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis have intensified, placing the Eknath Shinde authorities underneath strain.

9) The Shiv Sena (UBT), led by Uddhav Thackeray, together with allies NCP and Congress, referred to as for rapid motion towards the Shinde authorities, citing a deteriorating regulation and order scenario. Opposition events additionally slammed Fadnavis for his obvious off-the-cuff remarks over the killing of Ghosalkar.

10) State’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis termed the opposition’s costs on the regulation and order scenario as politically motivated.

With company inputs.