The Navi Mumbai police have arrested four members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang for allegedly plotting to attack actor Salman Khan. This development follows the recent firing outside his Bandra home, a senior police official said on Saturday.
The police launched an investigation last month after receiving a tip about a conspiracy to target Khan at his farmhouse in Panvel. The four suspects were reportedly in touch with jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his younger brother Anmol Bishnoi. They had surveyed the farmhouse and places where Salman Khan worked on the Bishnoi brothers’ orders.
The Navi Mumbai police named 17 individuals, including Lawrence Bishnoi and Anmol Bishnoi, in the FIR. The four arrested are Dhananjay Tapesingh (alias Ajay Kashyap), Gaurav Bhatia (alias Nahvi), Vaspi Khan (alias Waseem Chikna), and Rizwan Khan (alias Javed Khan). They have been booked under IPC sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
Lawrence Bishnoi is currently in Sabarmati central prison in Ahmedabad, while Anmol Bishnoi is believed to be in the US or Canada.
On April 14, two bike-borne men fired multiple rounds outside Khan’s home, Galaxy Apartments in Bandra. The shooters, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, were arrested in Gujarat. Sonu Bishnoi and Anuj Thapan, who allegedly delivered weapons to the shooters, were later caught in Punjab. Thapan allegedly committed suicide in police custody on May 1. Mumbai police have since made more arrests in connection with the case.
