Within hours of a garment trader and his burqua-clad girlfriend on a two-wheeler allegedly pranking writer Salim Khan at the Bandra promenade in Bombay on the evening of September 18, the police arrested both of them from Sewri in Bombay in the evening. Umar Asif Shaikh admitted that he asked Salman Khan’s father, “Lawrence Bishnoi ko bheju, kya?” (Shall I send Lawrence Bishnoi?), as a prank threat to impress his girlfriend.
On September 18, after his morning walk around 8.45 a.m., Salim Khan was resting near Windermere building which is barely 250 metres away from his residence in Galaxy Apartments, when Umar halted his scooter next to him, asked him the question and rode away with his girlfriend seated pillion.
A shocked Salim Khan told his bodyguard, constable Deepak Borse, that he had managed to memorise only the four digits of the scooter’s number plate — 7444. Based on Borse’s complaint, the Bandra (Bombay) police registered a case and managed to trace the owner of the scooter based on its registration number. By the same evening, the police arrested Umar and Ashma from the former’s residence. The duo was booked under BNS sections 292 (public nuisance), 353(2) (public mischief), and 3(5) (criminal act done with common intention).
There have been a series of security concerns for Salman and his family members after gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his men have openly admitted to gunning for the actor for his involvement in the 1998 black buck killing case during the shooting of Hum Saath Saath Hain. There was a shooting incident on April 14 this year outside the actor’s residence at Bandra in Bombay. Before that, a threat letter was found by Salim Khan at the Bandra promenade in June 2022, allegedly sent by Bishnoi.