The incident occurred at around 3.30 am following a tiff over parking of vehicles in their building at Cuffe Parade. Lalit was booked for attempt to murder under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code for firing six bullets into his sister. Lorna was rushed to Bombay Hospital and was discharged on November 15. Lalit was sent to the Arthur Road jail.

Citing the first information report filed by Lalit that day, the bail application states that when Lorna and Lalit started quarreling over a parking space, Lorna “gave a hard push.. at exactly the same spot where their father was attacked in 1990, by gangsters. Since the incident was fresh in the mind of the applicant (Lalit)...he got scared.”

According to the bail application, Lalit's father Tamoti D’Souza died when some gangsters attacked him with firearms.

The defence had argued that since the chargesheet has been filed in the magistrate’s court on January 18, the police is “not likely to make any progress in the investigation”.

Additional Sessions Judge K D Rathod granted D'Souza bail on a bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of the same amount. “The court has instructed Lalit not to reside in the same building as his sister but shift to another place. If he does need some things from his house, he has to get them in the presence of a police officer. The court has also ordered Lalit not to tamper with evidence,” said Public Prosecutor R V Kini.