India, Oct. 20 -- A popular young actor plays a game of football on a Sunday evening in a ground in Juhu, Mumbai. He finishes the game and jumps into his chauffer-driven luxury sedan to go home. As the car heads out, three men step in and from close quarters fire seven shots, injuring the driver and a bystander. The actor is injured by the breaking glass, but has a miraculous escape. The shooters are apprehended 15 hours later from Kota, Rajasthan. In an audio recording posted on X soon after the shooting, a man identified as Anil Pandit takes credit for the attack.

Pandit is a member of a gang headed by Lawrence Bishnoi, 33, who has been incarcerated in Gujarat's Sabarmati jail since 2023, and whose name has surfaced, time and again ove...