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Mum: 17 kids held hostage, rescued; accused shot dead
Orissa POST
|October 31, 2025
A three-hour hostage drama in Powai ended successfully Thursday with the rescue of 17 children and two adults but the hostage-taker, Rohit Arya, was killed after sustaining a bullet injury during the police operation.
Arya, 50, who had earlier claimed that his dues for a project for the Maharashtra Education department were pending and had even staged a protest in Pune, was declared dead at hospital.
The incident unfolded around 1:30pm after Powai police station received an alert that a person had taken 17 children hostage inside RA Studio in the Mahavir Classik building.
The children, boys and girls between the ages of 10 to 12, had been called to the studio for an audition for a web series that had been ongoing for six days.
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