Salman Khan’s Statement to Cops “Just Like Moose Wala…” Threat Letter
Salman Khan has recorded a statement in response to a ‘threat letter’ sent to him and his father; mobster Lawrence Bishnoi has already denied any participation.
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According to NDTV, actor Salman Khan has told the Mumbai police that he has not received any threatening calls, or messages, or been involved in any incident in the last few days. His statement was recorded on Monday evening, a day after a threat letter written to him and his father, writer Salim Khan, was discovered on a bench near the family home in Mumbai’s Bandra, where Salim Khan was seated after a morning stroll.
Lawrence Bishnoi, a suspect in the April 29 murder of Punjabi artist Sidhu Moose Wala, was arrested on Monday and reportedly denied having anything to do with the threat letter. On a paper chit, a single-line threat in Hindi was written: “Salim Khan, Salman Khan Bahut Jald Aapka Moose Wala Hoga… (Salim Khan, Salman Khan, very soon you will meet Moose Wala’s fate),” Lawrence Bishnoi was brought into the scene because he possessed the initials ‘LB’. In an interview with journalists outside a court in Jodhpur where he’d been brought for a hearing in 2018, Lawrence Bishnoi threatened Salman Khan. He is currently detained in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Salim Khan’s statement was also recorded by police before meeting with Salman Khan about the threat letter. Security has also been beefed up outside the family’s Bandra home in Mumbai. At the Bandra police station, a case has been filed under section 506-II of the Indian Penal Code (criminal intimidation). The threat letter was taken seriously by the authorities, according to Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey.
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After recording his statement, Salman Khan is said to have left Mumbai for a film shoot. Ravneet Singh Bittu, a Congress MP from Ludhiana (Punjab), received a call on his personal assistant’s phone on Tuesday, threatening him with the same fate as his late party colleague Sidhu Moose Wala, in a threat similar to that received by Salman Khan. Sidhu Moose Wala, who ran unsuccessfully in the Punjab assembly elections earlier this year, was shot and killed by at least four men while riding with a friend and relative in a village in Punjab’s Mansa district.