Pune: The Swargate police are investigating a complaint filed by a reporter of a news daily pertaining to a threat message on Friday in the name of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi , who has been in the headlines for threatning actor Salman Khan. The investigation, however, so far revealed that a fake profile of a resident of Hadapsar was created on social media to send the threat to the journalist, who filed the complaint on Sunday night. Senior inspector Yuvraj Nandre of the Swargate police said, "Former car driver of the Hadapsar resident, who is now in Tamil Nadu, was behind the fake profile.
We suspect that the driver sent this message with an intent to create troubles for his former employer." "After the recent murder of former minister Baba Siddique in Mumbai in which the police are investigating links with the Bishnoi gang, the scribe had uploaded a message on the social media questioning how a gangster can operate from prison," Nandre said. "The driver, who uploaded the message, claimed that he was a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and the reporter uploaded the post in the wrong spirit against the gangster," the officer said.
"The driver and the scribe do not know each other. Even the driver's former employer and the scribe are not known to each other. We suspect that the driver read the post of the scribe and made a fake profile to threaten him," he said.
"Our team traced the IP address which turned out to be of the cellphone of the driver. He is in Tamil Nadu right no.
