Actor Raveena Tandon and her driver were attacked by a mob in Mumbai in June amid rash driving claims against the driver. Recently, the 49-year-old actor has revealed that the attack was pre-planned, as per the Mumbai Police investigation, since actor Richa Chadha also faced a similar mob incident the following day.

“Unfortunately, this has been going on in Mumbai, which is a planned thing — jo ki darane ki baat hai. Jab ye mob ka incident hua, in fact, the next day, my friend Richa Chadha called me. She said, ‘Raveena, you won’t believe it, the same thing happened [with me]!’ Unfortunately, no CCTV cameras were there to record the truth. So, she had to pay up and settle the matter,” she said in her interview with NewsX.

“Toh mere saath jo incident hua, wo shayad daraane, dhamkaane ki koshish kar rahe the. [Taaki] main settle kar dun aur main paise de dedun,” the actor reasoned.

Opening up about the nature of the incident, she said, “I remember, the mob was so aggressive. They were entering my house, my children were upstairs and my husband wasn’t at home. Jo mere male members of staff dikh rahe the unko, wo kheech ke maar rahe the. So hum (she and her staff) gate par khade ho gaye so that no one enters the house. But woh dhakka de de ke bol rahe the, ‘aap bas driver ko bahar bhej dijiye.’ Toh maine kaha, ‘uski galti hai toh police ko aa jane dijiye, fir aap le jaye usko.’”