Khan has been within the crosshairs of an armed gang since 1998 for capturing two blackbucks on a leisure looking journey.

Two members of a infamous prison gang have been arrested for firing at the home of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in obvious retaliation for the famous person’s killing of two antelopes many years in the past.

The Bishnoi gang, accused of a number of murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based non secular sect that considers the species to be the reincarnation of their guru.

Khan, 58, has been within the crosshairs of the group since 1998 for capturing two blackbucks on a leisure looking journey.

The gang’s jailed chief Lawrence Bishnoi has threatened Khan with assassination up to now.

Two males on a bike shot at Khan’s first-floor residence in the course of the early hours of Sunday within the upscale Mumbai neighbourhood of Bandra, additionally firing a number of rounds within the air earlier than fleeing.

Khan, who’s all the time guarded by armed policemen owing to threats to his life, was home when the gunshots have been fired.

The two males aged 24 and 21 have been arrested on Tuesday within the western state of Gujarat, police mentioned.

“We were able to locate the two accused near a temple,” Kutch district police officer Mahendra Bagaria mentioned. “One of our teams reached the temple and nabbed the accused.”

Members of the Bishnoi neighborhood pursued a prison case in opposition to Khan for the blackbuck capturing for 20 years.

Khan was sentenced to 5 years in jail by an area court docket for violating the Wildlife Protection Act in 2018.

But the penalty was suspended on enchantment simply days after Khan was despatched to jail, prompting Lawrence Bishnoi to warn quickly afterwards that his gang would take the regulation into their very own arms.

The gang chief has been accused of orchestrating a number of murders, together with the killing of well-liked Indian rapper Sidhu Moose Wala in 2022.

Khan has starred in almost 150 movies and tv reveals since his first hit within the Eighties, and stays one in every of Bollywood’s most bankable figures.

But his private life has lengthy been dogged by controversy.

In 2002, he allegedly ran over 5 individuals sleeping on the pavement in an upmarket Mumbai neighbourhood, killing one, in a late-night hit-and-run.

He was cleared, however authorities challenged his acquittal in 2016 and the case remains to be persevering with.