Firing outside Salman Khan house: Sufficient prima facie material to proceed against accused, says court

“After going through the chargesheet and documents filed… including sanction order… it reveals that there is sufficient prima facie material on record for proceeding against accused no.1 to 6…,” the court said, issuing notices to the accused, Vicky Gupta, Sagar Pal, Sonu Bishoi, Mohammed Rafiq and Harpal Singh. The sixth accused Anuj Thapan died in custody, allegedly by suicide.

The Mumbai police had filed a 1700-page chargesheet in the case, which included statements of the actor Salman Khan and his brother, Arbaaz, among others. On the morning of April 14, four rounds were fired outside the actor’s Bandra residence.

The crime branch later arrested six people from different states. According to the probe by the crime branch, the attack was carried out at the behest of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi who has threatened actor Salman Khan in the past as well.