Overview
- The attack near Dockyard Road, which police say unfolded Tuesday around 6 pm, left Sameer Asif Shaikh with a single gunshot wound to his leg and in stable condition at Sir J.J. Hospital.
- Investigators arrested two men in the Mahim Dargah area within hours of the shooting and recovered the suspected pistol, the motorcycle used, and mobile phones linked to the case.
- Byculla police registered an attempt-to-murder case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act before transferring the probe to Crime Branch Unit 3, which secured police custody of the accused until May 19.
- Detectives are examining evidence that the firing sprang from a money dispute, and the arrested men told police a man named Saif Shaikh ordered the hit, who is now being sought.
- Shaikh is the son of Asif Dadi, who has been reported as linked to the D-Company network and survived earlier shootings in 2008 and 2010, a history that led police to also weigh an underworld angle common to Mumbai’s bike-borne, single-shot attacks.