Bollywood actor Tusshar Kapoor on Tuesdya received a thret call from a person identifying himself as Harry Boxer, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The caller demanded an extortion money of Rs 5 crore from the actor.
The actor reached out to the Mumbai Police with a complaint. Considering the sensitivity of the case, the Mumbai Police handed the investigation over to the Anti-Extortion Cell and Crime Branch.
The Crime Branch is suspected the call to be fake and aimed at creating fear as the technical team examined the audio recording of the threatening call and compared the voice with official audio samples of Harry Boxer available in its database. According to senior police officials cited by news agency IANS, the samples did not match. Police have now launched a search for the person who made the call.
The threat call in the name of Lawrence Bishnoi gang cames days after the outfit attacked Tiger Shroff at Mumbai's Juhu Beach on October 18. The bike-borne shooters fired five rounds at Shroff's car while he was leaving a football ground.
The 36-year-old actor escaped the attack with injuries. A bystander ad his car driver were injured in the incident. Anil Pandit, a Lawrence Bishnoi member in US' California, claimed the responsibility of the attack.
The police have arrested 13 people so far in the case, including the three shooters, two women who brought weapons to Mumbai and two others who made arrangements for weapons. The third woman arrested in the case was from Haryana's Karnal. The police have not disclosed her role in the entire case.
The investigation into the case is ongoing. Reports surfaced in the aftermath claimed that actors like Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were on the gang's target list. On October 27, the police invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the accused.