Mumbai Police has arrested two men who allegedly provided guns to the shooters who opened fire at Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s house on April 14.
The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested Sonu Subhash Chander (37) and Anuj Thapan (32) from Punjab. The duo were allegedly in contact with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and had supplied pistols to the accused.
On Monday, police recovered a gun and some live cartridges, used in the firing outside Bollywood star Salman Khan’s residence, from the Tapi River in Gujarat’s Surat city. The search for another gun was underway, officials had said.
During interrogation, the two arrested men – identified as Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21) – told the police that they threw the weapon into the Tapi River from a railway bridge, when they were fleeing to Bhuj in a train.
According to reports, the gun used for firing at Salman Khan’s Mumbai house was supplied to shooters just a few hours before the incident took place on Sunday morning.
According to sources, the gun was handed over to the shooters on the night of April 13 (Saturday) in the Bandra area of Mumbai.
The two motorbike-borne men allegedly fired outside the Bajrangi Bhaijaan actor’s house, Galaxy Apartment, in Mumbai’s Bandra area on April 14, following which they fled the scene.
Based on technical surveillance, joint teams of the Mumbai and Kutch people nabbed the accused from temple premises at Mata No Madh near Bhuj on April 16.
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