Mumbai: A man named Mohammad Faizan Khan, who gave out death threats to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was arrested from Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.
The accused, a lawyer, was arrested from his residence in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, TV reports said.
Faizan Khan made a threatening call to Bollywood’s ‘Badshah’ and also demanded Rs 50 lakh. He was arrested after he failed to appear before the Mumbai Police.
Earlier, the accused claimed that his mobile phone was stolen and was subsequently used to make the threatening call last week. He also said that he filed a police case regarding a ‘stolen phone’ on November 2.
According to reports, the Mumbai police registered a case against him under sections 308(4) (extortion involving threats of death or serious injury) and 351(3)(4) (criminal intimidation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) because the threat call was made from a phone number registered in his name.
The superstar received the death threat last month after the success of two movies, ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’. After that, Mumbai Police tightened his security, giving him a Y+ security blanket. This ensures he is accompanied by six armed personnel around the clock; earlier, he had two security personnel, also armed, accompanying him.
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, too, has been receiving threats. Last week, a man, aged 32, was arrested in Karnataka for issuing death threats to the “Dabangg” star.
The threat call was apparently made by the gang members of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who have demanded the actor apologise at the temple over the killing of a blackbuck.
The Mumbai Traffic Control room received the second threat message to Salman. The gang also threatened to kill a songwriter who penned a track on Lawrence Bishnoi in one month.
The message said that the “songwriter’s condition will be so bad that he won’t be able to write songs by his own name. If Salman Khan has the courage, then he should save him.”
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–IANS
