India, Feb. 6 -- The Mumbai police on Thursday informed the Esplanade metropolitan magistrate court that Shubham Lonkar, an alleged associate of incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, was the mastermind behind the firing incident on Sunday outside film producer and director Rohit Shetty's residence in Juhu.

The submission was made while the police was seeking custody of four accused youth arrested earlier from Pune, alongside 42-year-old Pune resident Asaram Shrirang Fasale, who the police claimed supplied three pistols to one of the arrested accused as per instructions from Lonkar. One of the three pistols was likely used to fire at the first floor of Shetty's 10-storeyed building, police said.

"Immediately after news about the firing...