Threat letter to Salman Khan: Mumbai Police question Siddhesh Kamble

Delhi cops also in Pune, Maharashtra, for probe into Sidhu Moosewala murder case 

A Mumbai crime branch team, conducting a probe into a letter threatening actor Salman Khan and his father, went to Pune on Thursday and questioned Siddhesh Hiraman Kamble alias Mahakal, who is part of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, a police official said.

The police will also ask Kamble about who kept the threatening letter at a bench in Bandra area of Mumbai on Sunday, he said.

Meanwhile, some Delhi Police officials also reached Pune on Wednesday in connection with the probe into the case of murder of popular singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala in Punjab last month, the official said.

The Delhi Police on Wednesday said gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, currently in their custody, was the mastermind behind Moosewala’s murder.

Maharashtra ADG (Law and Order) Kulwant Kumar Sarangal on Wednesday said Kamble is part of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.

Another suspect and Kamble’s close associate Santosh Jadhav, also from Pune, has been identified as a shooter in the case of Moosewala’s murder, they had said.

On Thursday morning, a team led by Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sangramsingh Nishandar reached the Pune crime branch office and started interrogating Kamble, the official said.