Threat letter to Salman Khan: Mumbai police query Siddhesh Kamble held in Moosewala homicide case

By PTI

MUMBAI: A Mumbai crime department workforce, conducting a probe right into a letter threatening actor Salman Khan and his father, reached neighbouring Pune metropolis on Thursday and began interrogating Siddhesh Hiraman Kamble alias Mahakal, who was arrested within the case of homicide of well-liked singer and Congress chief Sidhu Moosewala, an official mentioned.

The police can even query Kamble about who stored the threatening letter at a bench in Bandra space of Mumbai on Sunday, he mentioned.

Kamble, who was arrested by the Pune rural police on Wednesday, is a part of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, the Maharashtra police earlier mentioned.

On Thursday morning, a workforce led by Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sangramsingh Nishandar reached the Pune crime department workplace and began interrogating Kamble, the official mentioned.

The police are investigating whether or not the letter threatening author Salim Khan and his actor son Salman Khan was stored on a bench in Mumbai by members of the Bishnoi gang.

On Sunday, Salman Khan’s father and famous screenplay author Salim Khan was sitting on a bench on the Bandra Bandstand after a morning stroll when an unidentified man stored there a letter which talked about a risk to kill him and his actor-son.

Later, with the assistance of his safety personnel, Salim Khan contacted the police and an FIR was registered beneath part 506-II (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code on the Bandra police station. The police subsequently recorded the statements of Salim Khan and Salman Khan.

The police had arrested Kamble in reference to the killing of singer Moosewala in Punjab final month whereas one other suspect and his shut affiliate Santosh Jadhav, additionally from Pune in Maharashtra, has been recognized as a shooter within the crime, officers mentioned on Wednesday.

Kamble, towards whom the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) had been invoked, was needed by the Pune (rural) police for allegedly sheltering Jadhav, towards whom a homicide case was registered at Manchar police station in Pune in 2021.