Ranveer Singh receives threatening Whatsapp voice note, sender demands crores

Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh has received a threatening message via a WhatsApp voice note, in which the sender allegedly demanded money running into crores.

After receiving the threat, Singh informed the Mumbai Police, following which security outside his residence was immediately heightened. The sender claimed to be associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.

Police have launched an investigation and are currently working to trace the individual who sent the voice note. Further details are awaited as the probe continues.

After security was heightened at the housing society where Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone reside, the society



management wrote to the police seeking clarification on the heavy deployment of police personnel and private bodyguards. The management said that several residents are facing inconvenience as many of the guards, some of whom are armed, are moving through common areas of the society.

This is not the first instance of a Bollywood celebrity facing a security scare following the recent firing incident outside filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s residence. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang has claimed responsibility for the firing incident outside Shetty’s Mumbai residence in the early hours of Sunday (February 8), even as Pune Police detained five people in connection with the case.