A day after the shocking murder of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar during a ‘Facebook Live’ by a local ‘social activist’ Mauris Noronha, who also ended his own life, Mumbai Crime Branch officers on Friday arrested the assailant’s bodyguard, Amarendra Mishra, whose gun was allegedly used in the incident.
It is the second arrest in the case. Earlier in the day, the police arrested a man named Mehul Parikh, who was present at the crime scene when the victim was fatally shot.
The arrests took place even as the Opposition parties decried the “lawlessness” in the State, where a week ago, in Thane, an MLA opened fire at a local Shiv Sena leader and one more person inside a police station. Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress leaders demanded the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister and State Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who refuted the Opposition’s allegations and ascribed Ghosalkar’s murder to “personal rivalry”.
