Mumbai: Rohit Aarrya was a project consultant and social entrepreneur who’d once been a part of Maharashtra government’s cleanliness campaigns for state-run schools. That is, until Thursday, when the 50-year-old was shot dead by Mumbai police during a hostage situation. Aarrya had taken 17 children and two others hostage at a Powai studio .

Besides the video released by him as the studio siege was underway, multiple complaints and letters to journalists show Aarrya was consumed by what he believed was the Maharashtra government’s betrayal. Letters written by Aarrya and accessed by ThePrint suggest he was distressed and blamed former state education minister Deepak Kesarkar and few officials from the government’s education department.

Aarrya had also previously protested outside K

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