New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s security was beefed up recently and he was issued a gun license after he allegedly received a death threat from Lawrence Bishnoi and the Goldie Brar gang. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi had also confessed during his interrogation in connection with the assassination of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala that he wanted to kill Salman Khan in 2018 over the blackbuck poaching case.
Now it has been revealed that Lawrence Bishnoi gang also had a plan B ready for killing the actor. According to sources, the Bishnoi gang had planned to kill Salman near his Panvel farmhouse and had carried out recce of the place several times.
Punjab Police revealed that the plan was led by Goldy Brar and Kapil Pandit, a shooter of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, who was recently arrested from the Indo-Nepal border.
Kapil Pandit along with Santosh Jadhav and Deepak Mundi and two other shooters had rented a room in Panvel where they lived for one and a half months. In this duration, they did a recce of the actor’s farmhouse. They had small arms pistol cartridges to attack the actor.
It was also revealed during the investigation that the shooters had ascertained that Salman Khan drives his car at a very low speed after the hit-and-run case. They also had the knowledge that Salman is accompanied by his bodyguard Shera during his visit to his farmhouse.
Salman Khan also recently upgraded his Toyota Land Cruiser SUV with armour and bulletproof glass due to the death threat.
Bishnoi has allegedly confessed that he sent a member of his gang, Sampat Nehra, to shoot the actor in 2018.
Bishnoi reportedly told that Nehra only had a pistol and didn’t have a long-distance firing weapon so the gangster then ordered an RK Spring rifle through a man identified as Dinesh Dagar. The rifle was bought for Rs 4 lakh. The payment was reportedly made to an associate of Dagar. The rifle was later recovered in 2018 from Dagar’s possession.