Mumbai Police searches Tapi River to recover pistol used for shooting outside Salman Khan’s house

A Mumbai-based crime team on Monday launched a search operation in the Tapi river in Gujarat’s Surat city to recover the pistol used by two men for allegedly firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s residence, the report said. Police.

The two arrested men – Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21) – told police during interrogation that they threw the gun into the Tapi river from a railway bridge here when they fled towards Bhuj on a train after arriving in Surat had arrived. away from Mumbai after the shooting incident, according to sources.

The duo allegedly shot outside 58-year-old Khan’s home at the Galaxy Apartment in Mumbai’s Bandra area on April 14 and then fled on a motorcycle.

Based on technical surveillance, they were apprehended on April 16 from a temple complex in Mata No Madh, near Bhuj town in Gujarat, by joint teams of Mumbai and Kutch police.

They were then handed over to the Mumbai Police for further investigation.

“A team of Mumbai Police has come to Surat to recover the gun used by two men in firing at Salman Khan’s residence there. Our teams are helping Mumbai Police in recovering the weapon,” Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gehlot told PTI.

Senior police inspector Daya Nayak, known as ‘encounter specialist’, was also with the Mumbai crime squad that searched for the weapon in the waters of Tapi river here with the help of local divers and fishermen, another official said.

According to the investigation, Gupta and Pal had reached Surat by road after firing at Khan’s house in Mumbai on April 14.

They then boarded a train from Surat railway station to Bhuj. They threw the gun away in the Tapi River when the train drove off a bridge in the city.

Prima facie, the duo’s main objective behind the shooting outside Khan’s residence was to create “terror”, police said.

Mumbai Police have declared jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his younger brother Anmol Bishnoi as “wanted accused” in connection with the incident.

Gupta and Pal allegedly received instructions from the two Bishnoi brothers, Mumbai police said.

While Lawrence Bishnoi is in Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat in another case, his brother is believed to be in Canada or the US, an official said earlier.

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