Plot to attack Salman Khan: Cops nab man from Haryana's Bhiwani

The Navi Mumbai Police in Maharashtra arrested a man from Haryana in connection with an alleged plot to attack actor Salman Khan taking the number of persons held in the case to five an official said on Sunday reported the PTIHe is allegedly a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldie Brar gangs the official said as per the PTIEarlier the Panvel police had arrested four persons after getting a tip off in SeptemberOctober last year about a conspiracy to harm the actor The probe included infiltrating social media groups of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang police saidIn an official release Navi Mumbai Police said that Deepak Hawasingh Gogalia Jonny Walmiki 30 was arrested from Bhiwani in Haryana on SaturdayAccording to the PTI the release said that Gogalia had made accommodation arrangements for the other accused as well as providing logistical and vehicle supportGogalia was in touch with the other accused through video calls it addedThe release said he was nabbed after Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone 11 Panvel Vivek Pansare sought the help of Bhiwani SP Varun Singhala and a Crime Branch team from Navi Mumbai left for the northern stateGogalia was produced before a magistrate in Bhiwani on Sunday who granted Navi Mumbai police transit remand till June 5 the release said adding he was being brought to PanvelOn Saturday DCP Pansare had told media that Panvel police station senior inspector Nitin Thackeray got inputs in SeptemberOctober last year about a conspiracy to harm the actorTheir probe found that four gang members had recced Salman Khans farmhouse in Panvel the area around his home at Bandra in Mumbai and places he visited for film shooting the DCP had saidIn April a case was registered a case against 17 persons including Lawrence Bishnoi and his younger brother Anmol Bishnoi he had saidDhananjay Tapesingh alias Ajay Kashyap 28 was arrested from Panvel on April 28 while Gaurav Bhatia alias Sandeep Bishnoi was taken into custody from Gujarat on the same day the official said on SaturdayVaspi Khan alias Waseem Chikna was picked from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Rizwan Khan alias Javed Khan was arrested from Bangalore They have been booked under Indian Penal Code IPC sections including 120B conspiracy and 506 criminal intimidation Pansare had told reportersLawrence Bishnoi is currently lodged in the Sabarmati central prison in Gujarats Ahmedabad while Anmol Bishnoi is believed to be in the US or CanadaOn April 14 two bikeborne men fired multiple rounds outside Salman Khans home Galaxy Apartments in Mumbais BandraThe shooters Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal were arrested from Gujarat Their associates Sonu Bishnoi and Anuj Thapan who allegedly delivered weapons to the shooters were nabbed later from PunjabAnuj Thapan allegedly hanged himself in a police lockup here on May 1Mumbai Police subsequently made more arrests in the casewith PTI inputs