“Should I call Lawrence Bishnoi?” » Man illegally enters Salman Khan’s set

Mumbai:

A man illegally entered a location where Salman Khan was shooting a film in Mumbai and when questioned asked if he should call gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, police sources said.

Officials said Mr Khan was shooting for a film in Dadar’s Shivaji Park area on Wednesday when the man entered the hall. Finding his movements suspicious, some people asked him what he was doing, but the man replied: “Bishnoi ko bulau kya? (Should I call Lawrence Bishnoi?).”

The man was taken to Shivaji Park police station, where he is being questioned.

The Bishnoi gang had claimed responsibility for the shooting outside Salman Khan’s house in Mumbai’s Bandra in April. The actor’s name had also come up when the Bishnoi gang claimed to have killed former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique in Bandra in October. A member of the gang reportedly said that the politician was close to Salman Khan and anyone who helped the actor would also be in his crosshairs.

The actor has received a series of threats, especially since Baba Siddique’s assassination, and some of them have also turned out to be false. Last month, a 24-year-old lyricist of a song in the upcoming Salman Khan was arrested for sending threats to the actor and himself, allegedly from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Police had said the lyricist called the Mumbai traffic control room and made threats because he wanted the song, which mentions Bishnoi, to get publicity.

In October, another person had called the Mumbai police control room and threatened that the actor would be killed if he did not pay Rs 2 crore as ransom.

Why Salman Khan?

The Bishnoi gang, which rose to fame after claiming responsibility for the murder of musician Sidhu Moose Wala in 2022, said they wanted to kill Salman Khan over his alleged involvement in the Blackbucks shooting at Bawad in Mathania near Jodhpur in September 1998, while filming . from ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’.

The alleged act had upset the Bishnoi community, which considers the blackbuck sacred.

Lawrence Bishnoi had also said during a court appearance in 2018: “We will kill Salman Khan in Jodhpur. Everyone will know once we act. I haven’t done anything yet, they are accusing me crimes without reason.”