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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that celebrities successful Mumbai request not panic implicit the recent firing incidental extracurricular filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s residence. He was answering a query raised by a Shiv Sena UBT MLC successful the Legislative Council connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026). “Security measures person been taken. I guarantee that Mumbai volition not determination towards pack wars, truthful I entreaty to celebrities not to beryllium scared,” helium said.
A bid of high-profile firing incidents successful Mumbai betwixt 2024 and 2026, involving histrion Salman Khan, person Baba Siddique, and filmmaker Rohit Shetty, person been linked to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang by the Mumbai police. The constabulary successful Salman Khan’s lawsuit arrested astatine slightest 3 radical successful April 2024; successful Baba Siddique’s execution case, the tribunal framed charges against 27 accused; astatine slightest 13 arrests person been made successful the lawsuit of Rohit Shetty successful February 2026. Police successful each cases pointed retired that each the incidents person a signifier of intimidation and organised transgression activity.
On Wednesday (March 18, 2026), Shiv Sena UBT person Sachin Ahir raised the interest connected the level of the house.
Mr. Fadnavis said that the member of the premier accused, Shubham Lonkar, linked to the Bishnoi gang, has been arrested, and that the constabulary are making efforts to apprehension Lonkar too, who is from Akola and who has a way grounds of threatening governmental leaders. At the aforesaid time, helium said, “Another accused, Anmol Bishnoi, who is nether the apprehension of National Investigation Agency (NIA), volition besides beryllium taken into our custody and brought to Mumbai.”
