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A special court on Thursday (October 29) remanded all the 11 accused, including two women, arrested in connection with actor Tiger Shroff firing case, to police custody till November 6 after the Mumbai Police invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Syndicate Act (MCOCA). 

Special Judge Satyanarayan Navandar sent all the accused - Rehan R, Phool Singh, Ritik Kumar, Kunal, Sumit, Babita, Radha, Ankit, Pranjal, Sameer and Jatin to police custody till November 6. 

The Mumbai Crime Branch, which is investigating the case, had on Wednesday (October 28) sought to invoke MCOCA against all the 11 individuals after citing the antecedents of at least six of the accused persons. The plea was allowed by the special court and the accused were re-arrested under the MCOCA. 

The 11 accused were then produced before the special court on Thursday, wherein the Police sought 10 days of remand to unearth the details of the conspiracy and also the motive of the attack and further details of their 'crime syndicate.'

The police highlighted the fact that the syndicate leader Anil Pandit, who is still at large, is allegedly affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and has pending criminal cases and chargesheets at Haryana and Punjab. Notably, Pandit had taken the responsibility of the attack on Tiger on October 18, through a social media post.

The police claimed that the shooters - Rehan, Ritik and Kunal, had confessed that the attack on Tiger was their third attempt as they had twice before tried to execute their plan. The prosecution claimed that the shooters had earlier conducted a reconnaissance of many other celebrities of Bollywood but later focussed on Tiger and tracked his movements for nearly 10 days and then planned to attack him.

Tiger was attacked by the three men on October 18, who fired five to six rounds at his car in plush Juhu. Though he did not sustain any major injury however, the attackers caused severe injuries to a pedestrian and Shroff's driver.

Soon thereafter, the Mumbai Police lodged a case under charges of attempt to murder and other relevant provisions of the Arms Act.

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