Salman Khan has obtained a string of threats and ransom calls for
Mumbai:
Gufran Khan, the 20-year-old arrested from Noida in reference to loss of life threats to actor Salman Khan and MLA Zeeshan Siddique, has informed police that he needed to scare them and generate profits.
Gufran works as a tattoo artist in Noida. He was arrested after Mumbai Police began investigating a menace message despatched to Zeeshan Siddiqui’s Bandra workplace on Friday night. The message, despatched to the MLA’s workplace quantity, mentioned Salman Khan and Zeeshan Siddique are at risk and a conspiracy to kill them is being plotted. The message added that the sender knew who needed to kill them. Mumbai Police tracked down the quantity the message was despatched from and arrested Gufran in Noida. He has been taken to Mumbai on a transit remand.
The 20-year-old has informed police that he had deliberate to ship one other menace message, demanding cash in trade for info, however he was arrested earlier than he may accomplish that, the sources mentioned. He has informed police that he hoped that the message would scare Salman Khan and Zeeshan Siddique and at the least one in every of them would attempt to contact him and he would handle to make some cash.
The menace message was despatched weeks after Zeeshan Siddique’s father, former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, was shot lifeless close to the MLA’s Bandra workplace. Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang has claimed duty for the homicide.
Salman Khan has obtained a number of threats over the previous few weeks. Earlier, a vegetable vendor from Jamshedpur was arrested in reference to a menace message that demanded the actor pay a ransom of Rs 5 crore. Later, a message from the identical quantity apologised for the ransom name and mentioned it was a mistake. Another menace message to Mumbai site visitors management right this moment threatened that the actor can be killed until he paid Rs 2 crore as ransom.
These messages come months after the firing incident outdoors the actor’s Mumbai dwelling in April. An investigation revealed that jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang was behind the firing. Salman Khan has up to now obtained loss of life threats from the Bishnoi gang, apparently attributable to his involvement within the blackbuck searching case in Rajasthan in the course of the taking pictures of Hum Saath Saath Hain. The actor’s safety has been beefed up after the firing and loss of life threats.
Making an look on TV present Bigg Boss 18 days after Baba Siddique’s homicide, Salman Khan mentioned he did not need to be again on the present, however his work commitments introduced him again. The actor mentioned he did not really feel like assembly anybody due to the troublesome state of affairs he was going by way of.