Salman Khan with father Salim Khan
Salman KhanMumbai Police records statement after Bollywood superstar and his Salim Khan received death threats. The police also recorded Salim Khan’s statement. So far, statements of 4 people have been recorded. Police said Khan, 87, was handed an unsigned, hand-written threat letter on a bench after an unidentified man jogged at the Bandra Bandstand promenade around 7.30 a.m. on Sunday, and it was addressed to him and his son Salman.
The letter is signed with the initials ‘GB’ and ‘LB’. The police claimed to have decoded it. Reportedly, these initials belong to gangsters Goldie Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi. Police is probing and also trying to find out if they are linked to any previous incident targeting Salman Khan. Police officers were also seen talking to Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan outside Galaxy Apartments.
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Police spoke to Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan outside Galaxy Apartments
Police spoke to Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan outside Galaxy Apartments
The police is also scanning the CCTV footage of the area for clues and is questioning the local people for further action on the threat letter. Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey said on Monday that he has taken the threat letter received by Bollywood actor Salman Khan “seriously”, and all angles of the matter will be probed, a report in PTI states.
Earlier in the day, a police team visited Khan’s residence in suburban Bandra and beefed up security around the premises, a day after the actor and his father and screenwriter Salim Khan received an anonymous letter purporting to kill him. Threatened.
Talking to reporters, Pandey said, ‘Since the matter is serious, we have also taken this issue seriously. Our officials are actively probing the matter. No one has been taken into custody so far. It is too early to say whether the letter is fake, and at the same time we cannot say anything about the Lawrence Bishnoi gang (involved). But whatever material is in the letter, we are taking it seriously and investigating it.”
– Inputs by Rajeev Singh and PTI