A day after the sensational shoot-out witnessed in front of Bollywood super star Salman Khan’s Bandra residence, the Mumbai police on Monday traced the motorbike used in the incident to the adjoining Raigad district and identified the two shooters involved in the incident.
Two unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants, who were covering their faces with helmets, had opened four rounds of fire outside his Bandra (west) residence “Galaxy Apartment” in north-west Mumbai in the early hours of Sunday, before speeding away immediately after the shoot-out.
The investigations, being carried out by the Mumbai police crime branch sleuths, have revealed that the motorcycle used in the crime carried a Raigad registration number plate – as could be seen in the CCTV footage. The investigators are trying to ascertain if the motorbike was bought by the suspects from someone or were they using a “missing” or “stolen” bike.
Of the two suspects involved in Sunday’s shoot-out, one of whom has been identified as Vishal alias Kalu, from Gurugram in Haryana, while the other one is said to be from Rajasthan.
Vishal, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, had been arrested in a motorbike theft case for the first time in 2020 and sent to Tihar jail.
After Sunday’s shooting, Anmol Bishnoi, the younger brother of incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, had in a Facebook post claimed responsibility for the firing at Salman Khan’s home. Lawrence Bishnoi is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail.
Meanwhile, after the shooting incident that took place at 5 am on Sunday, the police have beefed up security in and around “Galaxy Apartments”, where Salman lives with his parents, brothers and other family members.
Fifty-eight-year-old Salman and his father Salim Khan have been facing threats to their lives allegedly from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, after the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident in Rajasthan.
It may be recalled that on November 29, 2023, the Mumbai police had reviewed the security provided to Bollywood super star Salman Khan after he allegedly received yet another threat from gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. TN RAGHUNATHA n
Mumbai
A day after the sensational shoot-out witnessed in front of Bollywood super star Salman Khan’s Bandra residence, the Mumbai police on Monday traced the motorbike used in the incident to the adjoining Raigad district and identified the two shooters involved in the incident.
Two unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants, who were covering their faces with helmets, had opened four rounds of fire outside his Bandra (west) residence “Galaxy Apartment” in north-west Mumbai in the early hours of Sunday, before speeding away immediately after the shoot-out.
The investigations, being carried out by the Mumbai police crime branch sleuths, have revealed that the motorcycle used in the crime carried a Raigad registration number plate – as could be seen in the CCTV footage. The investigators are trying to ascertain if the motorbike was bought by the suspects from someone or were they using a “missing” or “stolen” bike.
Of the two suspects involved in Sunday’s shoot-out, one of whom has been identified as Vishal alias Kalu, from Gurugram in Haryana, while the other one is said to be from Rajasthan.
Vishal, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, had been arrested in a motorbike theft case for the first time in 2020 and sent to Tihar jail.
After Sunday’s shooting, Anmol Bishnoi, the younger brother of incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, had in a Facebook post claimed responsibility for the firing at Salman Khan’s home. Lawrence Bishnoi is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail.
Meanwhile, after the shooting incident that took place at 5 am on Sunday, the police have beefed up security in and around “Galaxy Apartments”, where Salman lives with his parents, brothers and other family members.
Fifty-eight-year-old Salman and his father Salim Khan have been facing threats to their lives allegedly from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, after the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident in Rajasthan.
It may be recalled that on November 29, 2023, the Mumbai police had reviewed the security provided to Bollywood super star Salman Khan after he allegedly received yet another threat from gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
