Shiv Sena (UBT) leader shot dead: What happened off-camera after the FB Live shooting

Mauris goes to a secret mezzanine room, reloads the gun he used to shoot Ghosalkar and shoots himself. Illustrations/Uday Mohite

Seconds after he had shot Abhishek Ghosalkar on Facebook Live, Mauris Noronha disappeared from the room, according to the police. While Ghosalkar's supporters rushed him to hospital, Noronha had, in fact, slipped into a secret room located upstairs within his office. There he switched off the lights, reloaded the gun, and sat quietly for five minutes. He then shot himself in the head.

The ex-corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar and Mauris Noronha set up a phone on a stand and started a live conversation on Facebook. According to their discussion, this was the second meeting they held at Mauris's office for the distribution of sarees and rations to needy people at IC Colony in Borivali West. They both decided to send a message to society that they were working together for the betterment of society and looking towards doing positive work for the future. Both gave the messages separately while sitting in one frame during this live conversation. In their conversation, it seemed that they did not have any rivalry or fights. They were both smiling during the conversation. Sources informed mid-day that no other people were present besides Ghosalkar and Mauris in the office room where the incident occurred. Ghosalkar's party supporters were standing outside Mauris's office during the Facebook Live.

After the Facebook Live conversation, when Ghosalkar got up from his seat while taking the mobile, Mauris removed a gun and started firing at Ghosalkar. The first bullet hit his chest, the second hit his abdomen, and the third hit his back.

Ghosalkar also tried to escape from the office, but Mauris fired at him again, with two rounds hitting the glass door. The glass broke into pieces. Ghosalkar collapsed outside the office. Some of the supporters of Ghosalkar who had been waiting outside the office panicked and scattered all over the place. A couple of them rushed to Ghosalkar's rescue and took him to the hospital.

Mauris did not run away from the spot and instead went inside a secret room located upstairs within the office. Mauris was using this secret room for special guests and meetings. He switched off the room lights, reloaded the gun, and sat quietly for five minutes. After five minutes, he shot himself in the head at point-blank range. Initially, the police received information and thought that Mauris had absconded from the spot, so they started searching for him at his house and in the area. Later, when the police checked inside the office, they found Mauris in a deceased condition. Police rushed him to the hospital, where he was declared dead at Shatabdi hospital in Kandivli. The police later sent Mauris's body for a postmortem at Cooper hospital. On Friday, the cops handed over Mauris's body to his family for the final rites