Plot to harm Salman Khan: Cops arrest man from Haryana; accused to be in transit remand till June 5 |

In a significant development, Navi Mumbai Police have made a new arrest in connection with the foiled plot to attack actor Salman Khan‘s car in Panvel.
The latest suspect, identified as Deepak Hawasingh Gogalia aka Jonny Walmiki, 37, from Bhiwani, was apprehended based on inputs shared by Haryana Police. He is allegedly a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldie Brar gangs.This arrest takes the number of persons held in the case to five, an official said on Sunday.
Earlier, the Panvel police had arrested four persons after getting a tip off in September-October last year about a conspiracy to harm the actor.In an official release, Navi Mumbai police said Gogalia was arrested from Bhiwani in Haryana for allegedly making accommodations and arrangements for the other accused as well as providing logistical and vehicle support. Gogalia was in touch with the other accused through video calls, it added.
The release said he was nabbed after Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 11), Panvel, Vivek Pansare sought the help of Bhiwani SP Varun Singhala and a Crime Branch team from Navi Mumbai left for the northern state.
Gogalia was produced before a magistrate in Bhiwani on Sunday, who granted Navi Mumbai police transit remand till June 5, adding he was being brought to Panvel.

On Saturday, DCP Pansare told the media that Panvel police station senior inspector Nitin Thackeray got inputs in September-October last year about a conspiracy to harm the actor. Their probe found that four gang members had recced Khan’s farmhouse in Panvel, the area around his home at Bandra in Mumbai and places he visited for film shooting.
The gang had planned a detailed attack on the actor’s car in Panvel, which involved procuring weapons from a Pakistani arms supplier. An FIR has been registered against more than 17 individuals, including Lawrence Bishnoi, his brother Anmol Bishnoi, Sampat Nehra, and Goldy Brar.
Dhananjay Tapesingh, alias Ajay Kashyap (28) was arrested from Panvel on April 28, while Gaurav Bhatia, alias Sandeep Bishnoi, was taken into custody from Gujarat on the same day, the official said on Saturday. Vaspi Khan, alias Waseem Chikna, was picked from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Rizwan Khan, alias Javed Khan, was arrested from Bangalore. They have been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 120-B (conspiracy) and 506 (criminal intimidation), Pansare had told reporters.

Lawrence Bishnoi is currently lodged in the Sabarmati central prison in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, while Anmol Bishnoi is believed to be in the US or Canada.
On April 14, two men opened fire outside Khan’s Galaxy Apartments in Bandra in the early hours of the morning. The shooters, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, were later arrested and their associates Sonu Bishnoi and Anuj Thapan, were also nabbed. The Mumbai police subsequently made more arrests in the case.