New Delhi: The chargesheet filed by the Navi Mumbai police states that a contract of Rs 25 lakh was taken to kill actor Salman Khan near his farmhouse in Panvel, Maharashtra.
In the chargesheet naming five people, the police have said that the contract was taken by a 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, which was used to kill Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. The accused had hired boys below the age of 18 to kill Salman Khan, all of whom are hiding in Pune, Raigad, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Gujarat.
Around 60 to 70 people were keeping an eye on Salman Khan’s movements, especially at his Bandra house, Panvel farmhouse and Goregaon Film City. Further, according to the chargesheet, the plan to kill Salman Khan was hatched between August 2023 and April 2024.
Investigation revealed that Sukha, who was arrested from Panipat in Haryana on Thursday, had assigned the responsibility of the murder to designated shooter Ajay Kashyap alias AK and four others involved in the conspiracy. The recce carried out by Kashyap and his team concluded that high-grade weapons would be required to carry out the murder due to the actor’s tight security and bulletproof vehicles.
Sukha contacted Pakistan-based arms dealer Dogar via video call while negotiating the terms of the arms deal, showing AK-47s and other advanced weapons wrapped in shawls. Dogar agreed to supply the weapons while Sukha agreed to pay 50 per cent upfront and the remaining amount on delivery in India.
The police also found that all the shooters were waiting for a green signal from Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother Anmol Bishnoi.
The chargesheet also details the plan of the shooters to assemble in Kanyakumari after shooting the 58-year-old actor, from where they would travel by boat to Sri Lanka and then to some country where Indian investigative agencies would not be able to reach them.
The plot to target Salman Khan at his Panvel farmhouse came to light when the police were investigating the shootout incident outside his house in Bandra.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up outside Salman Khan’s Bandra residence following the murder of former minister and NCP leader Baba Siddiqui. Siddiqui, a former Bandra MLA and leader of the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was shot near Nirmal Nagar in Bandra.
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