Salman Khan receives death threats

Bollywood actor Salman Khan is said to have received death threats from a gangster.

According to Indian media reports, Lawrence Bishnoi, a local gangster from Rajasthan has said, "Salman Khan will be killed here, in Jodhpur... Then he will come to know about our real identity".

 Bishnoi made the threat while being taken to a Jodhpur court in police security in connection with   charges of terrorising traders and extorting them.

The gangster claimed that he had been framed in false cases and that to date, not even a single witness had deposed in the court to prove the charges.

"Now, if police want me to do some major crime, I shall kill Salman Khan and that too in Jodhpur," he added.

local media said Lawrence Bishnoi's death threat to Salman Khan is being linked with the black buck killing case of 1998, in which Salman Khan and his co-actors are accused. It was the Bishnoi community which had brought up the black buck hunting case, and ever since the community considers the Bollywood actor a "villain".