Mumbai Police has arrested an aspiring songwriter who threatened Bollywood actor Salman Khan and demanded Rs.5 crore in the name of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, an official said on Tuesday.
Police said Sohail Pasha, who was arrested in Raichur of Karnataka, planned to make the song which he wrote and he tried this nasty trick to popularize his song. On November 7, Mumbai traffic police received several messages on the department’s WhatsApp hotline claiming the sender was part of the Bishnoi gang and would kill the actor if Rs. 5 crore was not paid. The sender also threatened to kill the writer of the song ‘Main Sikandar Hoon’.
The Mumbai Police crime branch traced the mobile number which was used by the miscreants to send threatening messages to Raichur. A team was sent to Karnataka, where they pulled over and questioned Vyankatesh Narayan, the owner of that phone. However, Narayan’s phone didn’t have internet on it. Police were later to learn that his phone had a WhatsApp installation OTP making it necessary to continue searching for him.
Narayan said that on November 3, a stranger approached him in a marketplace and asked to borrow the phone for a call. Inquiries made showed that the man had used Narayan’s phone number to install WhatsApp on his own phone using an OTP. The crime branch then led the police to the house of the suspect Soahil in Manavi village near Raichur.
Pasha was then taken to Mumbai and then handed over to the Worli police for further investigation. The helpline of traffic police had received at least four threatening messages threatening Salman Khan recently.