The Mumbai police’s crime department has recovered two pistols, magazines and bullets from the Tapi river in Gujarat throughout a search operation to get better weapons allegedly used within the firing exterior Bollywood celebrity Salman Khan’s residence, an official mentioned on Tuesday.
The crime department has recovered two pistols, three magazines and 13 bullets in the course of the search that started on Monday, the official mentioned.
A staff of 12 officers, together with ‘encounter specialist’ senior police inspector Daya Nayak, remains to be on the spot. The search is underway with the assistance of scuba divers, he mentioned.
The 2 arrested accused, Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21), allegedly fired exterior 58-year-old Khan’s home on the Galaxy Residence within the Bandra space of Mumbai on April 14 after which fled the spot on a motorcycle.
Primarily based on technical surveillance, they have been apprehended on April 16 from the premises of a temple at Mata No Madh close to Bhuj city in Gujarat by joint groups of the Mumbai and Kutch police.
They have been subsequently handed over to the Mumbai police for additional investigation.
In accordance with sources, the duo advised the police throughout interrogation that they threw the weapon into the Tapi river from a railway bridge after they have been fleeing to Bhuj in a prepare after reaching Surat by street from Mumbai following the firing incident.
Prima facie, the duo’s major goal behind firing exterior Khan’s residence was to create “terror”, police had mentioned.
The Mumbai police have declared jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his youthful brother Anmol Bishnoi as “wanted accused” in reference to the incident.
Gupta and Pal have been allegedly receiving directions from the 2 Bishnoi brothers, they’ve mentioned.
Whereas Lawrence Bishnoi is lodged within the Sabarmati central jail in Gujarat in one other case, his brother is believed to be in Canada or the US, an official earlier mentioned.