Moosewala’s killers had their eye on Salman Khan too

Brut India

How a 1998 movie shoot in Jodhpur made Salman Khan a target for the nefarious Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Brut journalist Labanya explains.

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00:00Guns, fake passports, nearly 40 people and an escape to Dubai.

00:05This is how these gangsters not just killed Sidhu Moosewala

00:09but also planned a hit on Salman Khan.

00:12They will kill Salman Khan here in Jodhpur.

00:15The story started in 1998 near Jodhpur.

00:19Salman Khan was shooting for Hum Saath Saath Hai in October that year.

00:23He came across a herd of black bucks while on a ride around Kankani village

00:28with a few other cast members.

00:30And Khan allegedly shot two of those animals.

00:34A police case was filed against him and he was later held guilty.

00:38Black bucks were considered sacred by the Bishnoi people from Rajasthan,

00:43the same community that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was from.

00:47In 2018, Bishnoi first made national headlines

00:50when an alleged associate of his was arrested

00:53for allegedly trying to carry out a hit on Salman Khan.

00:56Four years later, Bishnoi returned to the headlines

01:00after the gruesome assassination of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in May 2022.

01:06In the months that followed, Punjab police named 35 suspects.

01:10By September 2022, they had arrested 23 people and two were killed in an encounter.

01:17In June 2022, Salman Khan received a death threat in the form of a letter

01:22which said what happened to Moosewala would happen to him too.

01:26It was signed with the initials GB and LB,

01:30which many believed to be abbreviated for gangster Goldie Prar,

01:34based out of Canada, and Lawrence Bishnoi.

01:37Goldie Prar was clearly supported from the outside.

01:41His connections to the criminals outside are linked to that.

01:44We have exposed everyone in the investigation.

01:47In September that year, the sixth and final shooter in the Moosewala case,

01:52Deepak Mundi was arrested, along with Kapil Pandit and Rajinder

01:56from the West Bengal-Nepal border.

01:59Mundi and Pandit were moving from place to place

02:01after Moosewala's murder on Goldie Prar's directions.

02:04They had gone from Haryana to Rajasthan to Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh

02:08and finally to West Bengal,

02:11from where they were to be taken to a safe house in Nepal

02:14and finally settled in Dubai using fake passports.

02:18We have issued a red-corner notice against Goldie Prar

02:21through Interpol, with the help of Central Agencies.

02:25It was Pandit who told police that he had been roped in

02:28by Goldie Prar and the Lawrence Bishnoi gang

02:31to carry out the hit on Salman Khan.

02:33He had jumped parole in 2021

02:35while he was serving time for a Rajasthan murder

02:38and said he went to carry out a reiki to strategise for Khan's murder.

02:43He said he had also surveyed several possible locations

02:47for Moosewala's killing on orders from Lawrence Bishnoi.

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