{"id":51150,"date":"2024-04-18T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51150"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:03:37","slug":"two-arrested-for-firing-at-bollywood-superstars-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51150","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for firing at Bollywood superstar&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two members of a notorious criminal gang were arrested by Indian police Tuesday for firing at the home of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the superstar&#8217;s killing of two antelopes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bishnoi gang, accused of several murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based religious sect that considers the species to be the reincarnation of their guru.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, 58, has been in the crosshairs of the group since 1998 for shooting two blackbucks on a recreational hunting trip.<\/p>\n<p>The gang&#8217;s jailed leader Lawrence Bishnoi has threatened Khan with assassination in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Two men on a motorbike shot at Khan&#8217;s first-floor apartment during the early hours of Sunday in the upscale Mumbai neighbourhood of Bandra, also firing several rounds in the air before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, who is always guarded by armed policemen owing to threats to his life, was home when the gunshots were fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of a notorious criminal gang were arrested by Indian police Tuesday for firing at the home of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the superstar&#8217;s killing of two antelopes. The Bishnoi gang, accused of several murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based religious sect that considers the species to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1222,1223],"class_list":["post-51150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-salman-khan","tag-two-arrested-for-firing-at-bollywood-superstars-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}