Film-maker Mahesh Bhatt on Monday told a Mumbai court that gangster Ravi Pujari, who was alleged to have sent henchmen to kill him and also made threatening calls, was not known to him.
Deposing before the special Maharashtra Control of Oranised Crime Act court, Bhatt, however, identified the voice of a person who had threatened him over the phone as the same with that of a person who threatened him on a news channel.
He told designated MCOCA Judge Mridula Bhatkar that it was editor of the private news channel India TV Rajat Sharma who had introduced the caller as Ravi Pujari.
Bhatt was deposing before the court regarding a case of firing inside his office in the western suburb of Mumbai on June 14, 2006, allegedly by members of the Ravi Pujari gang in which five persons have been shown as accused while three are still at large.
Three unidentified persons had come to Bhatt's office on June 14, 2006.
One of them entered the office with a firearm and asked for Bhatt and his brother Mukesh and pointed the gun at an accountant before firing a shot in the air and escaping while the duo waited outside the office.
