Relief for the Bhatt family as the unidentified man who had been threatening Mahesh Bhatt with calls to kill his daughter Alia and wife Soni Razdan has been arrested by the MH and UP police.
Mahesh Bhatt took to Twitter to share the news:
A bolt from the blue in the form of an extortion call & threat to my family was nipped in the bud by the MH & UP police in tandem.Gratitude!
— Mahesh Bhatt (@MaheshNBhatt) March 2, 2017
All of us is better than one of us !!
— Mahesh Bhatt (@MaheshNBhatt) March 2, 2017
According to a leading entertainment portal, the culprit is a certain Bablu Srivastava and is currently under custody.
Reportedly, Bhatt received a threat call on February 26. Initially he assumed it was a prank, but then he also received text and WhatsApp messages from the caller who claimed to be a gang leader. “If you fail to do so, I will fire several rounds of bullets in your daughter Alia and wife Soni,” he threatened. He had asked Bhatt to deposit the money in a Lucknow-based bank branch.Mahesh Bhatt filed a case in Juhu police station on Wednesday. It was reported that the case was registered under section 387 (causing a person to fear death or grievous hurt, in order to commit extortion).
After the FIR, Mumbai police beefed up the entire family’s security.
Mahesh Bhatt has received threat calls earlier as well. Reportedly, a few years ago over 13 people, who plotted to kill the Bhatt family, were arrested. The gangster who schemed this had directed the shooters to kill Bhatt, and if they did not get him, Mukesh Bhatt or Rahul Bhatt. However, Mahesh Bhatt has always put up a brave front towards these threat calls. At that time the filmmaker was promoting his film Khamoshiyan (2015) and when he was asked about these threat calls, he had said, “I’m promoting ‘Khamoshiyan’ on the front foot. I can’t stop living because of this death threat. If I did that would mean that the terrorist has won,”
