Bollywood's famous writer Salim Khan was left a fresh death threat by an unknown woman at his Bandra West residence in a chit handed over to the cops on Thursday. The unidentified lady warned that she would send a dreaded gangster to eliminate him if he did not pay heed.
This is the second time that Salim Khan, father of Bollywood megastar Salman Khan, has been targeted with a death ultimatum close to his Galaxy Apartment residence in Bandra West in the recent past.
While this is the latest in the series, it was a man and a woman in a 'burqa' who arrived on a scooter at the Bandra Bandstand where the legendary writer was on his morning walk, at around 8.45 a.m on Wednesday.
Feeling exhausted at one point, Khan sat down to rest on the promenade in front of the Windermere Building, and the scooterist couple arrived from the Galaxy Building side.
The duo accosted Khan and asked him, "Lawrence Bishnoi ko bheju kya?" (Should I send Lawrence Bishnoi?). He took a U-turn and sped off from there. Following a complaint by his personal bodyguard, Deepak Borse, the Bandra Police Station has registered a case against the unknown couple and is investigating the matter, said Senior Police Inspector Sanjay Marathe.
Adding to this statement, Marathe added that the police are scanning the CCTV footage in the vicinity and launched a hunt for the couple though have yet to be tracked.
This is yet another ultimatum in the series of threats the Khan father-son duo has received in the past few months, sending shudders to the Bollywood circles.
It may be recalled that at dawn on April 14 this year, two unidentified persons on a motorcycle had opened indiscriminate fire at the Khans' residence in Galaxy Apartment, though there were no injuries.
Later in the day, the Bishnoi gang openly claimed responsibility for the attack and also termed it the 'first and last warning' to the Khan family, shocking entertainment circles.
The two accused -- Vicky Gupta, 24, and Sagar Pal, 23 -- were apprehended from Bhuj town in Kachchh district of Gujarat, barely 325 km from the India-Pakistan border.
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