Salman Khan has acquired a string of threats and ransom calls for
Mumbai:
Gufran Khan, the 20-year-old arrested from Noida in reference to dying 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 risk 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 risk message, demanding cash in alternate for data, however he was arrested earlier than he might achieve this, the sources mentioned. He has informed police that he hoped that the message would scare Salman Khan and Zeeshan Siddique and at the least certainly one of them would attempt to contact him and he would handle to make some cash.
The risk message was despatched weeks after Zeeshan Siddique’s father, former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, was shot useless close to the MLA’s Bandra workplace. Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang has claimed duty for the homicide.
Salman Khan has acquired a number of threats over the previous few weeks. Earlier, a vegetable vendor from Jamshedpur was arrested in reference to a risk 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. One other risk message to Mumbai site visitors management as we speak threatened that the actor can be killed except 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 acquired dying threats from the Bishnoi gang, apparently as a result of his involvement within the blackbuck looking case in Rajasthan through the capturing of Hum Saath Saath Hain. The actor’s safety has been beefed up after the firing and dying threats.
Making an look on TV present Bigg Boss 18 days after Baba Siddique’s homicide, Salman Khan mentioned he did not wish 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 scenario he was going by.