On Saturday, the Navi Mumbai Police arrested four members of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang for allegedly planning an attack on Bollywood actor Salman Khan's car in Panvel. An FIR was registered against 17 individuals linked to the case, including Lawrence Bishnoi, Anmol Bishnoi, Sampat Nehra, and Goldy Brar.
Reports indicate that the apprehended suspects planned to source weapons from Pakistan, execute an attack on Salman Khan, and then escape to Sri Lanka. The four arrested individuals have been identified as Dhananjay alias Ajay Kashyap, Gaurav Bhatia alias Nahvi, Waspi Khan alias Wasim Chikna, and Rizwan Khan alias Javed Khan.
According to the police, the accused conducted a recce of Salman Khan's house and farmhouse to prepare for the attack. Ajay Kashyap reportedly contacted a person named Dogar in Pakistan via video call to order weapons, including an AK-47.
The police also received information that approximately 60 to 70 members of Lawrence Bishnoi and Sampat Nehra's gang had converged from Mumbai, Raigad, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, and Gujarat to monitor Salman Khan. The gang's plan involved using minors to attack Khan and then fleeing the country by boat to Sri Lanka from Tamil Nadu's Kanniyakumari.
This development follows an incident weeks earlier, when two bike-borne men fired multiple rounds outside Galaxy Apartments in Bandra, where Salman Khan resides. CCTV footage from the incident showed one of the men firing towards Khan's house on April 14. Two suspects, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, were arrested in Gujarat, and they were believed to have ties to Lawrence Bishnoi's gang. A third suspect, Anuj Thapan, was also arrested but died on May 1 in the lock-up of the Mumbai police's crime branch.