Amid growing death threats to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan from gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who confessed to being the mastermind in the assassination of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, the Maharashtra state government has decided to provide Y-plus security to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan.
Last month, the Delhi Police's Special Cell arrested a juvenile who disclosed that last year Lawrence Bishnoi had tasked him and other members of his gang to murder Khan. However, later a gangster, named Rana Kandowalia, was made their primary target instead of Khan. Kandowalia was shot dead at a private hospital in Amritsar on August 4 last year.
On June 5, 2022, Khan's father Salim Khan received a threatening letter addressed to him and wrote that he and his son would soon meet the same fate as recently slain singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who was shot dead by unidentified assailants on May 29 in Punjab state.