Why Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi will 'never forgive' Salman Khan

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, currently in the custody of Punjab Police in connection with two murder cases, said his community will never forgive Bollywood actor Salman Khan for killing a blackbuck, regarded sacred by the Bishnoi community, unless he apologises in public, the Delhi Police Special cell said on Sunday.

Bishnoi made these revelations while he was being interrogated in connection with the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.

Last week, Salman's lawyer Hastimal Saraswat, who is representing him in the blackbuck poaching case in Jodhpur, had claimed that he had received death threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in a letter addressed to him.

It said the lawyer will meet Sidhu Moosewala’s fate, adding that an “enemy’s friend is their first enemy”.

The authencity of the threat letter is yet to be ascertained by the police.

HGS Dhaliwal, special commissioner (special cell), said that during interrogation, Lawrence candidly admitted that Salman Khan's acquittal or punishment from the court will not be the last verdict for him given that Bishnois consider the blackbuck the reincarnation of their spiritual leader, Bhagwan Jambeshwar, also known as Jambaji. “The actor and his father either tender public apology in Jambaji temple or the Bishnois will kill them.”

In June, a few days after the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, Salman Khan received a threat letter which read that the actor and his father Salim Khan will suffer the same fate as Moose Wala.