Two bike borne men opened fired at the luxery nail salon of actress Leena Maria Paul at Panamoilly Nagar on Saturday afternoon. This incident took place around 2:30 pm at Nail Artistry.
The sources say that two unidentified men wearing full face helmets, came to the parlour in Panampilly Nagar at around 3 PM on Saturday, and they fired two shots and sped away. There were a lot of customers inside the beauty parlour at the time of the incident. According to eyewitnesses, one of them left a paper with the name ‘Ravi Poojari’ inscribed on it before leaving the spot.
Leena Maria Paul was in Thiruvananthapuram when the incident occurred. The police said that they suspected the weapon was an air pistol. No one including the customers and staff, were hurt during the incident. The owner of the salon was also not present when this incident took place.
The police are collecting the surveillance footages from the salon and nearby areas to identify the criminals, who fired.
It is also alleged that the criminals might be from local circles of Kochi.
Leena Maria Paul has been the part of few Bollywood movies like ‘Madras Cafe’, Tamil flick ‘Biriyani’ and Malayalam films ‘Husbands in Goa’ and ‘Red Chillies’.
The controversial South Indian actress Leena Maria Paul was an accused in a bank fraud case and was associated with alleged con man Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who is currently in Tihar jail, in a matter related to a bid to bribe the Election Commission, involving Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader and R K Nagar MLA T T V Dinakaran.
In 2013, the actress and her partner Balaji were arrested from Delhi in a joint operation by Delhi police and Chennai police. Both were accused of cheating a private bank in Chennai . In June 2015, she and her partner Shekhar Chandrashekhar were arrested in by the Economic Offenses Wing.