“Sapna was assaulted by Prithvi”: Lawyer claims Prithvi Shaw physically attacked Sapna Gill in Oshiwara brawl

Dixit Bhargav | 16/02/2023
"Sapna was assaulted by Prithvi": Lawyer claims Prithvi Shaw physically attacked Sapna Gill in Oshiwara brawl

India batter Prithvi Shaw was attacked by fans last night after he reportedly denied selfies. Shaw, whose fake photo with alleged girlfriend Nidhi Tapadia had circulated across social media platforms on the day before yesterday, is said to have been in a friend’s car when it was attacked with baseball bats in Oshiwara, Mumbai.

Shaw had visited a five-star hotel in Santacruz with a friend when two unidentified people approached him for selfies. Shaw, who obliged to their request at first, denied after they returned with more people.

According to the complaint lodged in Oshiwara Police Station by Shaw’s friend named Ashish Surendra Yadav, Shaw’s friend (at the hotel) had complained to the hotel manager about the group. As a result, those people were asked to leave the hotel.

Perhaps irked by the same, the same group of people waited outside the hotel for Shaw and his friend to come out. The complainant further added that Shaw was sent in another car to avoid a “dispute” but only for those people to chase that car down. The chase had eventually resulted in the accused damaging Shaw’s friend’s BMW car.

Apart from creating a scene which fortunately didn’t result in any injury, the accused, identified as Sana alias Sapna Gill and Shobit Thakur, demanded INR 50,000 for resolving the matter.

Prithvi Shaw downplays attack from fans

Although all the eight people have been named in the FIR filed by the complainant, Shaw has downplayed the incident in spite of viral videos of the incident doing the rounds across social media platforms.

“Nahin, woh kuch nahin hua tha. Woh unka maamla tha, unhone kar diya. Chodho. Jaane do. Mere ko kuch bolna nahin hai [No. Nothing had happened. It was their fight. Leave it. I don’t want to say anything],” Shaw told Times Now in a telephonic conversation.

Lawyer claims Prithvi Shaw physically attacked Sapna Gill in Oshiwara brawl

People, who have been booked, however, have disapproved of the allegations alleging how Shaw assaulted them first as a baseball bat can be seen in his hands in the viral videos.

“Sapna was assaulted by Prithvi. Stick is seen in Prithvi’s hand. Prithvi’s friends assaulted the group first. Sapna is currently at Oshiwara police station. Police is not allowing her to go for medical,” Ali Kashif Khan, lawyer of Sapna Gill, said as quoted by India Today.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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