• Purchased a rifle worth rupees Rs 4 lakhs to kill Salman Khan: Lawrence Bishnoi tells police

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    Purchased a rifle worth rupees Rs 4 lakhs to kill Salman Khan: Lawrence Bishnoi tells police

    Sources said that Bishnoi told police that he wanted to kill Salman Khan because of the 1998 Chinkara poaching case...


    Digital Desk: During an interrogation, gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is being interrogated by Punjab Police in connection with the murder of popular musician Sidhu Moosewala, allegedly revealed that he "planned to kill" Bollywood actor Salman Khan in 2018.


    Sources said that Bishnoi told police that he wanted to kill Salman Khan because of the 1998 Chinkara poaching case in Rajasthan's Jodhpur, which happened during the shooting of Hum Saath Saath Hain.


    Reportedly, a letter threatening Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan was delivered last month by three members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The letter allegedly threatened Salman Khan and his father with the same end as Moosewala, who was murdered in broad daylight on May 29 in Punjab's Mansa. 


    During interrogation, Bishnoi reportedly stated that Chinkara, or blackbucks, are very important to the Bishnoi people in Haryana, Rajasthan, and Punjab.


    The superstar was convicted to five years in prison by a Jodhpur court in April 2018 for killing two blackbucks in October 1998. The actor has challenged the judgement. In connection with the case, Khan was initially detained in the Jodhpur jail before being transferred to the Bharatpur jail.


    During interrogation, Bishnoi allegedly confessed that he ordered his Rajgarh-based friend Sampat Nehra to kill Salman Khan. Nehra was reportedly absconding at the time in other cases.


    Sources stated that Lawrence Bishnoi told the police that Sampat Nehra had been sent to Mumbai to kill Salman Khan and had done a reconnaissance mission outside the actor's home. According to Bishnoi, Nehra only had a pistol and no long-distance firing gun; thus, he could attack Khan from a distance.


    The gangster then ordered an RK Spring rifle through a man named Dinesh Dagar, sources stated, adding that the gun cost Rs 4 lakh. The payment was reportedly given to Anil Pandey, a Dagar associate. Later, the rifle was found in 2018 from Dagar's possession.


    A lawyer representing Salman Khan in the blackbuck poaching case, Hasti Mal Saraswat, claimed on July 6 that he received death threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.


    In his police report, Saraswat claimed that on July 3, a threat letter was received in the Jubilee Chamber of the High Court, which includes legal offices. According to the complaint, Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi's assistant's names were initialised on the letter. It stated that the lawyer would meet the same death as Sidhu Moosewala, adding that an "enemy's friend is their first enemy."