Salman Khan Gets New Threat, Sender Claims To Be Lawrence Bishnoi’s Brother – News18

Last Updated:November 05, 2024, 23:39 IST

Police said a suspect, who also demanded Rs 5 crore and an apology for the blackbuck incident, was tracked down at Karnataka’s Hubballi though no arrest has been made yet

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has received a fresh threat along with a demand of Rs 5 crore from a person claiming to be the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. A suspect was tracked down at Karnataka’s Hubballi and a police team has reached there though no arrest has been made yet, officials said on Tuesday.

According to the police, the threat message, which also asked Khan to apologise apparently over the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident, was received on the WhatsApp helpline of the Mumbai traffic police control room located in Worli late on Monday (November 4). The message sender claimed he is the brother of Lawrence Bishnoi, police said.

“If Salman Khan wants to stay alive, he should go to our (Bishnoi community) temple and apologise or pay Rs 5 crore. If he does not do so, we will kill him; our gang is still active,” the message said.

An official said a case was registered at Worli police station, and Khan’s security was also beefed up. Police tracked the sender of the message to Hubballi and zeroed in on a 35-year-old man, a welder by profession, he said. The man is suspected to have sent the threat message, and the police team was questioning him though he has not been detained or arrested yet, he added.

Khan has received similar threats earlier. On October 29, a man sent a threat message to the same traffic police helpline, threatening to kill him and city NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique if they failed to pay Rs 2 crore.

The sender warned that the two will meet the same fate as Zeeshan’s father, former state minister Baba Siddique. He was shot dead by three gunmen in Bandra area of Mumbai on October 12. On October 30, a resident of Bandra (West), an upscale area where Khan also lives, was arrested in connection with the threat.

Earlier in October, the helpline desk had received a threat message demanding Rs 5 crore from the actor. The police subsequently arrested a man from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.

City police also arrested a man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly issuing a death threat to Khan and Zeeshan.

Notably, the actor had earlier received death threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. While Bishnoi himself is lodged in Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati jail in cases including attempted murder and extortion, suspected members of his gang opened fire outside the actor’s Bandra home in April. Weeks later, police claimed to have uncovered a plot by the Bishnoi gang to kill him while on his way to his farmhouse at Panvel near Mumbai.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)