Mumbai police has arrested a 20-year-old man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday for allegedly giving extortion and death threats to Bollywood super star Salman Khan and MLA Zeeshan Siddique, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-AJit Pawar) candidate and late Baba Ziauddin Siddique’s son.
Identifying the arrested accused as one Mohammed Tayab, alias Gufran Khan, the police said that he was being brought from Noida to Mumbai on a transit remand. Acting on a complaint registered by Ziauddin Siddique’s office, on Monday, Mumbai’s Nehru Nagar police traced Mohammed Tayab to Noida using tech-intel and rushed its team to New Delhi’s satellite city. The visiting police team wanted the accused on Tuesday and produced him before a court and sought a transit remand. The police said that Mohammed Tayab, alias Gufran Khan, had on Friday last sent a threat message to Siddique’s mobile phone used by the latter for receiving public grievances.
So far, the police have arrested at least 15 persons from different parts of India for the Siddique killing that had sparked a nationwide political furore, coming ahead of the state Assembly elections. The preliminary investigations have revealed that the purported motive behind Mohammed Tayab handing threats to Siddique and Salman Khan was to create a scare and extort money from them.
Salman Khan and his legendary father Salim Khan are already facing multiple threats and attacks, from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and even some wannabe law-breakers who have targeted the celeb duo in recent months.
The Nirmal Nagar Police have booked arrested-accused Khan under various sections of the BNS and further probe is underway to find out if he has any accomplices or mafia links. Siddique is contesting November 20, 2024 Maharashtra Assembly polls on a NCP-Ajit Pawar ticket from Bandra East Assembly constituency in north-west Mumbai.
He and actor Salman Khan received extortion and death threats more than a fortnight after his father and former minister-father Baba Ziauddin Siddique was shot dead near his office on October 12 during the Dussehra festivities.
The Mumbai police have so far arrested 15 persons from different parts of the country for Baba Siddique’s murder which took place as it did in the run-up to the State Assembly polls,
Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan have received multiple threats from the members of the gang run by incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi
It may be recalled that the Mumbai Police had some days ago arrested Shaikh Hussain Shaikh Mausin (24), a vegetable seller from Jamshedpur, over a threat message received by Mumbai traffic police’s WhatsApp helpline. Through his WhatsApp message, Shaikh Musin had demanded a Rs 5 crore ransom.
Simultaneously, the police had arrested one Sukha alias Sukhbir Balbir Singh, the key accused in the case involving the conspiracy to kill Slman Khan. Sukha was arrested from Panipat in Haryana by a visiting team of Panvel police, was produced before a court at Panvel in Navi Mumbai. Sukha was among the several persons arrested in connection with the shoot-out that took place near actor Salman Khan’s residence.
It may be recalled that on April 14, 2024, two unidentified motorcycle-borne miscreants, who were covering their faces with helmets, had opened four rounds of fire outside his Bandra (west) residence “Galaxy Apartment” in north-west Mumbai in the early hours of Sunday, before speeding away immediately after the shoot-out.
