Highlights
- Lawrence Bishnoi, who held his operations from Tihar Jail, planned to kill Salman Khan for 4 yrs
- Bishnoi's gang had tried to make two attempts to kill Khan in the last three months
- The plan was set to assassinate him on his way to the Panvel farmhouse, but failed twice
The mastermind of the brutal murder of famed singer Sidhu Moose Wala had one more high-profile target on his hitlist: Bollywood actor Salman Khan. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who held his operations from Tihar Jail, planned to kill the actor for over four years.
Bishnoi's gang had tried to make two attempts to kill Khan in the last three months, Punjab police revealed on Thursday. They called the plan - Plan 'B' - since the first one failed, and were staking out Khan's farmhouse.
Bishnoi had plans to kill Khan before Moose Wala and had made Canadian gangster Goldie Brar the leader of the plan. Brar had hired Kapil Pandit (a sharpshooter of the Lawrence gang) to kill Salman Khan. The plan was set to assassinate him on his way to the Panvel farmhouse.
Kapil Pandit was accompanied by two other shooters and multiple gunmen and had rented out a room in Panvel, Mumbai, close to Khan's farmhouse. They had done a thorough recee of the route that led to the farmhouse where they stayed for a month and a half
Khan's slow car was the target
Salman Khan's car always goes slow since the infamous hit and run incident, the shooters had found out. They also found out that most of his security is around him when he enters the farmhouse.
The road that leads to the farmhouse has plenty of potholes - shooters also gathered - forcing Khan to go slower than usual on the road. The usual speed on this road is only 25 km per hour.
Lawrence's shooters had even befriended the security guards of the farmhouse saying they were fans of the actor to gather more information about his movements.
Khan had visited the farmhouse twice during the shooter's stay, but they had missed the attack both times.
