Mumbai: Tense negotiations with an adamant hostage-taker, the lives of 17 children and two adults at stake, frightening visuals of little hands banging on the glass facade of the building in which they were trapped, and a police encounter. A three-hour hostage situation had Mumbai on tenterhooks Thursday.

The 17 children made their way to RA Studio in a building called Mahavir Classik in Powai, under the impression that they had been called to audition for a web series. But the man who had summoned them had other plans.

Even though the police managed to rescue all the hostages unharmed, that wasn’t the end. When everyone thought it was all over, there was another shocker. Rohit Aarrya, the hostage-taker whose dramatic video where he elaborated on his demands spread like wildfire on

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