A contract of ₹ 25 lakh was taken out to kill actor Salman Khan near his farmhouse in Maharashtra’s Panvel, a chargesheet filed by the Navi Mumbai Police stated.

In the chargesheet that named five people, police stated that the contract was taken out by the gang led by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. The accused were preparing to buy state-of-the-art weapons AK 47, AK 92 and M 16 from Pakistan and the Turkish-made Zigana weapon, with which Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was killed. The accused had hired boys below 18 years of age to kill Salman Khan, all of whom are hiding in Pune, Raigad, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Gujarat.

About 60 to 70 people were keeping track of Salman Khan’s movement, especially at his Bandra house, Panvel farmhouse and Goregaon Film City. Further, the plan to kill Salman Khan was hatched between August 2023 and April 2024, as per the chargesheet.

Investigation revealed that Sukkha who was arrested from Haryana’s Panipat on Thursday, assigned the hit to the designated shooter Ajay Kashyap alias AK and four others involved in the conspiracy. A recce by Kashyap and his team led to the conclusion that owing to the actor’s tight security and bulletproof vehicles, high-end weapons would be required to carry out the murder.

Sukkha contacted Pakistan-based arms dealer Dogar through video call, showing AK-47 and other advanced fire arms wrapped in a shawl, while negotiating the terms of the arms deal. Dogar agreed to supply the weapons, while Sukha agreed to make 50 percent advance payment and the remaining amount on delivery in India.

Police also found that all the shooters were waiting for a go-ahead from Canada-based gangster Goldie Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother Anmol Bishnoi.

The chargesheet also details a plan made by the shooters to gather in Kanyakumari after shooting the 58-year-old actor, from where they would travel to Sri Lanka by boat and then to a country where Indian investigation agencies could not reach them.

The conspiracy to target Salman Khan at his Panvel farmhouse was unearthed when the police was investigation the incident of firing outside his house in Bandra.

Meanwhile, security has been increased outside Salman Khan’s Bandra residence following the killing of former minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique. The latter, a former MLA from Bandra and leader in Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was shot near Nirmal Nagar in Bandra.

Pravin Lonkar, one of the accused in Baba Siddique murder case, was sent to police custody till 21 October. Pravin was arrested from Pune on Sunday and is the brother of accused Shubham Lonkar who put up the Facebook post claiming Lawrence Bishnoi gang was behind the attack.

Lonkar was produced before the Esplanade Court after a medical checkup on Monday (October 14).

Pravin Lonkar was arrested on Sunday (October 13). Meanwhile, a total of 6 accused have been identified in Baba Siddique firing case.

The three accused who opened fire at NCP leader Baba Siddique that resulted in his death have been identified as Gurnail Singh (23) from Haryana, Dharmaraj Kashyap from UP and Shivkumar Gautam from Uttar Pradesh.

While Gurnail Singh was arrested and sent to judicial custody on Sunday (October 13) till October 21, Dharmaraj Kashyap claimed in the court that he is a minor. The court ordered police to carry out an Ossification (age verification) test of accused Dharmaraj and present him in the court later.

The third accused Shivkumar Gautam is on the run and police teams have been formed to nab him. Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar from Jalandhar has also been identified as an accused in the case.

Baba Siddique Shot Dead

Former Bandra MLA and Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead in Bandra east on Saturday night while he was returning from his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique’s office.

Six rounds were shot at Baba Siddique out of which three bullets hit him. The NCP leader was rushed to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital, however, he had no pulse. Siddique was declared dead two hours later. Baba Siddique was laid to rest with state honours on Sunday (October 13) at the Bada Qabristan in Marine Lines.

Mumbai: A tragic incident has unfolded in Malad, where a middle-aged man was brutally beaten by a mob leading to his death. As per initial reports, the victim was a member of Maharashtra Navnirma Sena (MNS). The man met with an altercation with autorickshaw drivers in Malad East and the verbal spat soon turned into violence.

It can be seen in the video that the man been brutally trashed in front his his family. In a desperate bid to protect him, his mother lay over his body to protect him from the angry mob. His father was to severely injured on his left eye.

The altercation began as a dispute over over-taking between the bike rider and an auto-rickshaw driver, however, it escalated in no time and other autorickshaw drivers too joined the fight. Reportedly, the incident took place on October 12 and the victim was taken to nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

There is not information available at the time of filing this copy if police have registered a case.