Canadian officials this week said Bishnoi’s gang was targeting Sikh dissidents at the behest of the Indian government.

"We will kill Salman Khan in Jodhpur," says Lawrence Bishnoi, who is now lodged in a jail in Sabarmati, in a video byte which started trending over the last few days as the Bollywood superstar is on the radar of the gangster group following the murder of influential Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique during Dussehra last week.

Lawrence Bishnoi, who now leads a gang of 700 members, developed animosity towards Salman Khan over the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident in Rajasthan,

Lawrence Bishnoi - the name of the notorious gangster has been all over the media since the killing of senior Maharashtra leader Baba Siddique. In a Facebook post, one of the accused claimed the murder was executed by the Bishnoi gang.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on Tuesday took to social media to express his opinion over Lawrence Bishnoi's threat to kill superstar Salman Khan in the wake of the murder of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique.

India Today, in an exclusive report, has claimed access to the gang’s hit list as revealed by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is currently in jail, to NIA during interrogation. Some of these individuals have already met violent ends, while others remain on the gang's radar.

Ram Gopal Varma, who's toying with the idea of a Lawrence Bishnoi biopic, claimed that he knows not even a “single film star” as good looking as the gangster.

Devendra Buria, the National President of the All India Bishnoi Mahasabha, said that the actor may be forgiven but under specific conditions. Buria stated that Salman Khan must publicly acknowledge his wrongdoing and offer a sincere apology at Mukti Dham Mukam,