Overview
- A roughly 90‑second audio clip demanding ₹20 crore and warning that February’s Juhu firing was “only a trailer” was handed to police by Rohit Shetty’s staff after being received on June 27.
- Mumbai Crime Branch and Juhu Police have registered a case and submitted the recording for forensic voice analysis to check whether the speaker is Shubham Lonkar, a wanted aide of Lawrence Bishnoi.
- Investigators are also tracing phone and digital leads to locate the caller and to establish if the Bishnoi gang directly ordered the extortion or if its name is being used to intimidate.
- No arrests have been reported so far and authorities have stepped up personal security and surveillance around Shetty’s residence and workplace as a precaution.
- The threat ties into a wider pattern of attacks and extortion attempts that previously involved a February shooting outside Shetty’s Juhu home, a 1,624‑page charge sheet filed in April, and earlier cases linked to the Bishnoi network.