14 November,2024 07:22 PM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
Shah Rukh Khan. File Pic/PTI
A Mumbai court on Thursday remanded a lawyer from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, arrested over allegations of threatening to kill Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in police custody till November 18, reported the PTI.
The Mumbai police had arrested the accused lawyer, Fayzan Khan, from Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Tuesday.
The cops have not yet recovered the mobile phone from which the accused allegedly threatened to kill the superstar if Rs 50 lakh was not paid to him. The Bandra Police have formed a team to trace the mobile phone and started an investigation into the matter.
A team of police officials had brought him to city after securing his transit remand from a Chhattisgarh court.
On Thursday, Fayzan Khan was produced in the Bandra court, where the police sought his remand for seven days for probing into the matter.
On November 5, the Bandra Police received a threatening call from an unknown person who identified himself as "Hindustani,". The caller claimed that he was standing outside Shah Rukh Khan's Mannat bungalow in Bandra and threatened to kill the actor if he did not pay Rs 50 lakh. After registering a first information report (FIR) against an unidentified caller under sections 308(4) (extortion involving threats of death or serious injury) and 351(3)(4) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bandra Police traced the mobile number to Fayzan Khan. The cops sought for transit remand for the lawyer, but he failed to be present for the investigation at Bandra Police Station. On Tuesday, the Bandra cops took Fayzan Khan into custody and brought him to Mumbai.
The accused's lawyers, Amit Mishra and Sunil Mishra, submitted that Fayzan Khan's phone was stolen on November 2, which was Shah Rukh Khan's birthday. They also claimed that the lawyer had filed a missing complaint into the theft.
They argued that the threat call made from his communication device was a conspiracy against him as he had earlier complained to the Mumbai Police against Shah Rukh Khan Khan over a dialogue in his movie 'Anjaam (1994)' referring to deer hunting.
"I hail from Rajasthan. The Bishnoi community (whose members mainly reside in Rajasthan) is my friend. It is in their religion to protect deer. So, if a Muslim says something like this about deer, it is condemnable. Therefore, I raised an objection," Fayzan Khan said.
After hearing both the sides, the court on Tuesday remanded the accused in police custody till November 18.
The threat to Shah Rukh Khan follows a series of such phone calls targeting fellow actor Salman Khan, allegedly from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
(With PTI inputs)
