MUMBAI — Police arrested three men on a train at Kota railway station in Rajasthan on Monday morning over the shooting at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff's car in Mumbai the previous evening, and a court granted Mumbai Police a 48-hour transit remand to bring them back to the city.

The arrests came less than a day after gunmen opened fire on the 36-year-old star's car in the upmarket Juhu neighbourhood, an attack that an unverified social media post attributed to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Police say one of the suspects was in contact with an alleged associate of the gang, which has a history of threats against figures in the Hindi film industry.

The three were taken from the general coach of the Pune-Jaipur Superfast Express when it stopped at Kota at 10.17 a.m., Kota Superintendent of Police Tejaswini Gautam said, according to the Press Trust of India. "All three accused have now been arrested by Mumbai Police, which has also obtained their transit remand," she said.

"After being arrested yesterday, they were produced before the competent court for a transit remand," Subhash Chandra Mishra, an additional superintendent of police in Kota, told ANI. He said the Mumbai team stayed in Kota overnight because officers were exhausted after a long journey and leaving at night was judged unsafe.

The suspects were held overnight at the Railway Colony police station, guarded by Mumbai Crime Branch officers and Rajasthan Police. "Since the incident is very serious, security is being maintained as per the usual procedure," the station's officer in charge, Ramswaroop, told PTI. The team was due to set off for Mumbai on Tuesday.

PTI named two of the men as Ritik, also known as Roshan, from Begusarai in Bihar, and Rehan, from Sonipat in Haryana. The Week reported that the Bihar man drove a bike taxi in Mumbai, lived in Andheri West and is suspected of being the gunman.

Accounts of the suspects' ages have varied. The Week described the third man as a 17-year-old from Haryana. Gautam said one suspect had given a date of birth that put him about a month short of 18, but that checks showed he had already turned 18. Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police Raj Tilak Roshan said one of the men was 18 and the other two were 22, according to PTI.

Police said Rehan had been in touch with Anil Pandit, whom they describe as an associate of the Bishnoi gang. PTI described Pandit as a 32-year-old gangster from Panipat who is believed to be based in the United States. Rehan's father, a daily wage worker named Raisuddin, told PTI that his son had left school after Class 9 and was out on bail in an earlier Arms Act case.

The attack took place at about 7 p.m. on Sunday near Pushpa Narsee Park in Juhu as Shroff was heading home from a game of football, The National reported. Roshan, the deputy commissioner, said five to six rounds were fired at the car by attackers on a motorcycle.

Shroff escaped without serious injury. His driver was shot in the hand and another man nearby was also hurt, The National said. Both were treated in hospital.

Investigators went through more than 200 CCTV clips from Juhu, the getaway route and the area around Andheri West station, according to The Week. Police recovered the motorcycle in Andheri. The Week said the men caught a train from Andheri to Surat in Gujarat, where they boarded the express.

"Preliminary investigation has revealed that the accused were going to flee from Jaipur to Delhi and from there to Nepal," Gautam said, as quoted by The Week. According to PTI, she said no weapon was found on the three. The Week reported that Kota police laid the trap within about 15 minutes of receiving the alert from Mumbai.

The men face charges under sections 109(1) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which cover attempted murder and acts done with common intention, and under sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act, ANI reported.

After the shooting, two men calling themselves Anil Pandit and Harman Sandhu claimed responsibility on social media and linked themselves to the Bishnoi gang. Police have not verified the claim. A purported audio clip attributed to Pandit tied the attack to Shroff's association with Salman Khan and referred to the gang's demands over a 1998 case in which Khan was accused of killing blackbuck, an animal the Bishnoi community holds sacred, The Federal reported. PTI said it could not verify the recording.

"Everyone involved in this will be traced. No one will be spared," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, according to PTI. Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who visited Shroff at his home, said: "It will be tit for tat, bullets for bullets."

Sanjay Raut of the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) called for a change of government, pointing to what he described as a wave of shootings, murders, extortion and kidnappings in the state. Film industry workers' bodies called for a time-bound investigation, The Federal reported.

Shroff, the son of actor Jackie Shroff, made his screen debut in the 2014 film Heropanti and is best known for the action franchise Baaghi.

Under the transit remand, the Mumbai team has 48 hours to take the three men to Mumbai, where they are to be questioned.