Mumbai:
Mumbai police have made the second such arrest in quick succession and arrested a man who threatened to kill actor Salman Khan.
The control room of the Mumbai Traffic Police received an anonymous message threatening to kill the actor if Rs 2 crore was not paid as ransom. Mumbai police registered a case against Azam Mohammad Mustafa, a resident of Bandra East, who was arrested on Wednesday, officials said.
Earlier this week, Gufran Khan, a 20-year-old tattoo artist from Noida, was arrested for threatening Salman Khan and Bandra East MLA Zeeshan Siddique.
Mr. Siddique is the son of former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead in Bandra on October 12. Man Khan has a close rapport and was instrumental in ending Salman Khan’s five-year cold.
The tattoo artist, who has been arrested by Mumbai police, said he had planned to send another threatening message asking for money, but was arrested before he could do so.
The Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed responsibility for the shooting outside Salman Khan’s Bandra residence in April and posted on Facebook that the gang had Dick (Baba Siddique) was responsible for the murder.
The post, from the account of Shubuu Lonkar, believed to be Bishnoi gang associate Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar, claimed that Siddique was killed because of his association with India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, his close relationship with Salman Khan, and because Anuj’s death.
“We don’t have any enmity with anyone, but whoever is helping Salman Khan and the Daoud gang, please keep your accounts in order (“Be an accountant”),” Lonkar wrote in Hindi in a Facebook post.
Why Salman Khan?
The Bishnoi gang, which became a household name after claiming responsibility for the murder of musician Sidhu Moose Wala in 2022, said it wanted to kill Salman Khan because He was accused of involvement in the shooting of blackbucks at Bawad in Matanya near Jodhpur in September 1998. ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’.
The alleged act outraged the Bishnoi community, which considers the blackbuck sacred.
Lawrence Bishnoi said while appearing in court in 2018: “We will kill Salman Khan in Jodhpur. Once we take action, everyone will know. So far I have done nothing, they have no reason accuse me of a crime.