Mumbai Police search the Tapi River for a gun that was fired outside the residence of star Salman Khan

According to police, a Mumbai crime branch team began searching Gujarat’s Surat city on Monday along the Tapi River in an attempt to find the handgun that two men had reportedly used to fire outside the home of Bollywood actor Salman Khan.

After arriving in Surat by road from Mumbai after the firing incident, the two arrested men, Vicky Gupta (age 24) and Sagar Pal (age 21), told the police during their interrogation that they had thrown the weapon into the Tapi river here from a railway bridge while they were escaping towards Bhuj in a train, according to sources.

On April 14, the two reportedly opened fire outside the Galaxy Apartment in the Bandra neighborhood of Mumbai, where Khan, 58, lived, before leaving on a motorcycle.

They were captured on April 16 by combined teams of the Mumbai and Kutch police from a temple premises at Mata No Madh, close to Bhuj town in Gujarat, based on the sophisticated monitoring.

After that, they were turned over to the Mumbai police so they could do more research.

“A Mumbai police squad traveled to Surat in order to retrieve the pistol that two guys had used to fire at Salman Khan’s home there. “Our teams are helping the Mumbai police retrieve the weapon,” Anupam Singh Gehlot, the commissioner of Surat police, told PTI.

Another insider said that senior police inspector Daya Nayak, dubbed the “encounter specialist,” was part of the Mumbai crime branch squad that was working with local fishermen and divers to find the weapon in the Tapi river water.

According to the inquiry, on April 14, Gupta and Pal fired at Khan’s Mumbai home and traveled by road to Surat.They then left the Surat railway station and boarded a train that was headed for Bhuj. When the train was moving over a city bridge, they threw the gun into the Tapi River.

According to authorities, the two’s primary goal in shooting outside Khan’s home was ostensibly to induce “terror”.

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is now incarcerated, and his younger brother Anmol Bishnoi have been designated as “wanted accused” by the Mumbai police in relation to the event.

The Mumbai police have claimed that Gupta and Pal were getting orders from the two Bishnoi brothers.

According to a previous official, Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother is thought to be in Canada or the US, while he is being held in the Sabarmati Central Prison in Gujarat in a separate case.