‘Salman Khan wasn’t even there, didn’t fire shots,’ says Salim Khan about son’s Blackbuck case; feels Lawrence Bishnoi threat is ‘extortion’: ‘Why should he apologise?’

“Salman Khan jaanwaro se bohut pyaar karta hai (Salman Khan loves animals). He had a canine whom helium loved and treated well. When helium fell sick and died, Salman cried. I asked him (about the blackbuck incident) who had done it? He said, ‘I wasn’t adjacent there.’ He won’t prevarication to me. He doesn’t fancy sidesplitting animals, helium loves animals,” Salim Khan said, adding that his household has ne'er adjacent utilized a gun, fto unsocial hunt.

The brutal execution of his adjacent friend, person Baba Siddique, who was changeable dormant successful Bandra allegedly by members of notorious transgression Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang, had led to claims that Salman Khan’s blackbuck lawsuit was a trigger for the aforesaid arsenic the precocious person was trying to support the superstar.

When asked if Salman would apologise to the Bishnoi community, Salim Khan said that would mean acceptance of a transgression that was ne'er committed. He said, “Doing this makes him accept, ‘I’ve done it’. He hasn’t killed, I haven’t killed immoderate animal, nor has Salman. We person ne'er adjacent killed a cockroach. We don’t judge successful it.”

The Navi Mumbai constabulary connected Thursday arrested a idiosyncratic from Haryana for allegedly conducting a recce on with others astatine histrion Salman Khan’s farmhouse successful Panvel successful February. It was believed to beryllium the 2nd crippled to onslaught histrion Salman Khan, with the archetypal being the firing extracurricular his Bandra residence successful Mumbai connected April 14.

Salman Khan has been connected the radar of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is believed to beryllium progressive successful some cases successful Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. The Mumbai Police judge that this is simply a bid by Bishnoi to summation a foothold successful Mumbai and statesman extortion successful the city.

The constabulary said that Bishnoi has respective autarkic groups moving astatine antithetic locations and they fishy 1 pack was conducting recce successful Panvel portion the different was successful Mumbai.