MUMBAI: The hostage crisis’ ‘script’ was apparently readied over a month. The 17 children had their hands tied and mouths taped at the Powai recording studio on Thursday, but everyone went along with it for hours believing that a “hostage scene” for a web series was being shot. Panic set in only after the captor, Rohit Aarrya, pulled out a gun and a rod and threatened to kill them, reveal chilling accounts from the victims. Police said he came prepared — rags sprayed with some chemical were placed randomly around the duplex studio and on the floor to start a fire in case things went south, motion detectors were installed on the main door and moving cameras set up on all floors.

A Powai police officer said Aarrya had read out his web series script to 23 selected children and their paren

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