Cricketer Prithvi Shaw’s ‘Fan Nightmare’: Selfie Row, Baseball Bat Attack

According to a police complaint, a dispute over selfies swiftly developed into a brawl involving a baseball bat and a car chase in Mumbai for cricketer Prithvi Shaw.

In the police investigation, eight guys are accused of charging Mr. Shaw and his friend, damaging their car’s glass, and demanding 50,000. Two of the individuals cited in the complaint, Shobhit Thakur and Sana or Sapna Gill, have denied the allegations and claim that the 23-year-old player assaulted them first. According to the news agency ANI, Ms. Gill was taken into custody on Thursday night.

The argument allegedly broke out in the early hours of Wednesday at a posh hotel close to the Mumbai airport after two fans—a man and a woman—came up to the cricketer for a selfie.

After a few photos, when they persisted in demanding more, Mr. Shaw called his friend and the hotel manager to request that the fans be taken away.

The accusation said that after being expelled, the fans waited outside for Prithvi and, along with a few others with baseball bats, surrounded Mr. Shaw.

When Mr. Shaw and his companion fled, they after the vehicle, caught up with it at a stoplight close to Oshiwara, and cracked the windscreen, it continued.

According to Mr. Shaw’s companion, they also demanded 50,000 and threatened to file a false police report. Yet, many involved in the case have refuted the accusations.

Sapna Gill’s attorney, Ali Kashif Khan, has claimed that Prithvi Shaw assaulted her in a media interview. Ms. Gill struggled with Mr. Shaw while he was holding a broken baseball bat, as seen in a video taken by Ms. Gill’s friend.

Picture Courtesy: Google/images are subject to copyright