Mauris Noronha, the man who shot dead the son of a Shiv Sena (UBT) during a Facebook live session, had been planning his ‘revenge’ for some time. Abhishek Ghosalkar, the son of the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader, could not have possibly suspected Noronha’s plan as he was led to believe the meeting with Noronha was to mend bridges between them.

Mauris ‘Bhai’, as Noronha was known on social media, was a poker player who received praise for helping the poor during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As he became popular due to his philanthropy work, he also became inclined towards politics, which led him to decide on contesting the corporator election.

But there was a problem. The son of the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader didn’t want Noronha to contest, and objected to his candidacy publicly.

Then, a woman filed a case alleging Noronha had raped her. He was jailed for five months in this case. He suspected Ghosalkar to be the architect of the rape allegation to derail his corporator plan.

Eventually, Noronha made the plan to kill Ghosalkar by first winning his trust. Noronha made elaborate plans to send a message that he was no longer interested in the corporator election. This would have made Ghosalkar put down his guard.

On the day of the shooting, Noronha had invited Ghosalkar to a Facebook live session under the pretext of extending an olive branch and to tell the public both had become friends.

Noronha put up banners of Ghosalkar to pretend he supported the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader’s son over his own candidacy.

The outcome of Noronha’s planning is that Ghosalkar agreed to meet him for the Facebook live session. In the video, both are talking in a friendly way, until Noronha gets up and shoots Ghosalkar. After shooting his rival, Noronha ran to the mezzanine floor at his office and shot himself in the head.

Reports said Noronha first tried to shoot himself in the room where he hosted the Facebook live session. But the handgun didn’t work. Within seconds, he loaded another bullet in the handgun and shot himself.

Noronha used the gun of his bodyguard, Amarendra Mishra. The bodyguard’s wife told the police that Noronha, while hiring her husband, asked him to keep his gun in the office. Mr Mishra has been arrested under the Arms Act, which deals with giving a gun to someone without checking if the person is allowed to have the gun.

Noronha fired six rounds, five of which hit Ghosalkar.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shehbaz Sharif has joined hands with PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to form a coalition government with election trends showing no party getting a clear majority, the local media have reported.

An unity government would thwart Imran Khan despite Independents backed by him racing ahead in the national elections, but falling short of the 133 majority mark.

Elections were held in Pakistan on February 8 amid a mobile service blackout.

Here are the LIVE updates on Pakistan Elections:

But after long delays in results that prompted further allegations the military had engaged in vote-rigging, the army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) declared victory as the party with the largest number of seats. However, to form a government, the party founded by the three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be forced to cut deals with rivals and independents.
The PPP, whose popularity is largely limited to its Sindh heartland, also did better than expected, with leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari saying early results were “very encouraging”. The PML-N and PPP joined forces with minor parties to boot Khan from office in April 2022 after his PTI had won a slender majority in the 2018 election.
“We don’t have enough of a majority to run the government ourselves, therefore we invite the other parties and candidates who have been successful to work with us,” Mr Sharif said at his party headquarters in Lahore.
Imran Khan yesterday claimed victory in the general election in an audio-visual message created using artificial intelligence and shared on his X social media account. Imran Khan heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The PTI had defied a months-long crackdown that crippled campaigning and forced their candidates to run as independents with a combined showing in Thursday’s election that still challenged their chief rivals.
Imran Khan also rejected rival Nawaz Sharif’s earlier claim to victory. Khan called on his supporters to celebrate a win that was achieved despite what he calls a crackdown on his party.
A slow counting process showed independents had won at least 99 seats — 88 of them loyal to Khan — by Saturday morning.
PML-N took 71 and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) snapped up 53, with 15 of the elected 266-seat National Assembly still to be announced.
Minor parties between them shared 27 seats — including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which took 17 — that are likely to be of great interest to PTI in coming days.
If PTI’s independents join one of them, they can take a share of the further 70 unelected seats reserved for women and religious minorities, which are allocated according to party performance in the contested vote.

With inputs from AFP