The Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested five individuals in Andheri in connection with an alleged assassination plot. According to the FIR registered by the AEC, the accused are linked to a notorious gangster’s network and were reportedly involved in a plan to assassinate an important figure in the city.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspects have links with the Bishnoi gang—a group implicated in several recent crimes in Mumbai, including the murder of a senior NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader, Baba Siddique, and a shooting incident outside the residence of Bollywood actor Salman Khan. Given that Salman Khan has historically been on the gang’s hit list, authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the actor might have been the intended target.