Mumbai hostage crisis: Rohit Arya allegedly locked 17 children inside a Powai studio and threatened to harm them and himself.

Last rites of Rohit Arya, the hostage taker killed by police, were held in Pune with family present.

The line between fiction and reality was erased inside RA Studio in Powai when an audition, supposed to be the start of a dream for 17 children, spiraled into a waking nightmare, a terrifying event orchestrated by the very man who had promised them

Mumbai police officer Amol Waghmare ended a tense 3.5-hour hostage situation in Powai by shooting Rohit Arya, who had trapped 17 children inside a studio.Waghmare’s quick decision saved all hostages...

Despite injuries and Arya's threats of a bomb, Patankar comforted the children, informed parents, and remained calm until police intervention. Arya was killed, ending the three-hour ordeal.

The assistant inspector who fired at Mumbai hostage-taker Rohit Arya took the call since children were involved and the situation presented a "real threat", an official said on Friday.

Rohit Arya, the man at the centre of a hostage drama at a Mumbai recording studio, occasionally visited his elderly parents in Pune and their neighbours are in shock over the tragic incident involving children which ended in his violent death.