Police arrests juvenile tasked with ‘eliminating’ Salman Khan

Security outside the actor’s residence increased after he received death notes following Sidhu Moosewala’s death

Death threats against Bollywood actor Salman Khan grows with each passing day. The Delhi Police has arrested two accused persons, including a juvenile, in connection with the May 9 RPG attack at Punjab Police headquarters in Mohali. According to the Hindustan Times, it turns out that the said juvenile was also tasked with "eliminating" the actor.

The police believe that the gangs behind the death threats to Khan, Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria syndicate, tasked the juvenile along with Deepak Surakpur (absconding) and Monu Dagar (in jail) with "eliminating" the Dabangg actor.

The juvenile later revealed that Bishnoi gave him, Surakhpur and Dagar the task to annihilate Khan. However, later gangster Rana Kandowalia was made their primary target instead of the Kick actor. There is some other information disclosed by the two that are currently in process of verification, said the police.

Khan and his father, Salim Khan, received death threats in June, after which he was also issued a weapon for self-defence. His security was also heightened on June 6 and a police van was deployed outside his residence after his father found a threatening note addressed to them a day earlier.

Their security team found the letter outside their Mumbai home near the Bandra Bandstand promenade, where the Sultan star’s father goes for his routine morning jog. “Moosewala jaisa kar doonga (You will suffer the same fate as Moosewala),” read the threat note, referring to the sudden brutal killing of Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moosewala on May 29, earlier this year.