Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has received a fresh threat along with a demand of Rs 5 crore from a person claiming to be the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, officials said on Tuesday.
The threat message, which also asked Khan to apologise apparently over an alleged blackbuck poaching incident, was received at the Mumbai traffic police control room located in the Worli area late Monday night, an official said.
The sender of the message claimed to be a brother of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, he said.
"If Salman Khan wants to stay alive, he should go to our (Bishnoi community) temple and apologise or pay Rs 5 crore. If he does not do so, we will kill him; our gang is still active," the message said.
The official said an on-duty security officer had immediately reported the message to management and Worli police. Police are investigating from where this threat message has come, sources said. Salman Khan's security measures have been enhanced, sources added.
The police are also scanning the message to check if it is related to Lawrence Bishnoi, lodged in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat on several charges, including attempted murder and extortion, they added.
Khan earlier too had received threatening calls along with demands for money.
A man on October 29 had sent a threat message on the WhatsApp helpline number of the traffic police threatening to kill Khan and Maharashtra NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique if they failed to pay up Rs 2 crore.
The person in the message warned the two would meet the same fate as former state minister Baba Siddique, father of Zeeshan Siddique, and his warning should not be treated as a joke, he said.
Baba Siddique was shot dead by three gunmen in Bandra area on October 12.
Police had arrested a person living in Bandra (West) an up-market place also where Khan has homes in the connection of this threat, and recovered from there a mobile phone and its SIM used in the offence. Earlier, an official used to say.
Earlier last month, the Mumbai traffic police's WhatsApp helpline desk had received a threat message demanding Rs 5 crore from the actor. The police subsequently arrested a man from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand in connection with that threat message.
The Mumbai police last month also arrested a man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly issuing a death threat to Khan and Zeeshan Siddique.
Significantly, Khan had earlier too received death threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
Suspected members of the dreaded gang opened fire outside the actor's Bandra home in April this year.
A few months back, the Navi Mumbai police had unearthed a plot by the Bishnoi gang to kill Khan, after which his security was stepped up.
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