Eknath Shinde meets Salman Khan at his Bandra home after firing incident

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday met Bollywood superstar Salman Khan days after two men opened fire outside the latter's residence in Mumbai Bandra. Shinde met Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan at their house in Galaxy Apartments and assured the safety of the family.

Shinde also said that the government will beef up the security cover provided to Salman Khan and his family.

Assuring Salman Khan's safety, the Chief Minister said that his government would not tolerate any underworld gang activities in the state.

Shinde met Salman Khan hours after Mumbai Police arrested two people who opened fire outside the Bollywood actor's house in Bandra on Sunday morning. The accused, identified as Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21), were arrested from a village in Gujarat's Kutch district.

Both the accused are natives of West Champaran in Bihar and have admitted to the crime. Mumbai Police, after an initial investigation, revealed that Sagar and Vicky were hired by the gang of incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to open fire at Khan's house.

Mumbai Police's crime branch is investigating the case and have claimed that the two arrested accused opened fire outside Salman Khan's house "in an attempt to kill him".

While Sagar fired at Khan's house, Vicky was in touch with the gang members.

The duo were presented before a magistrate's court in Mumbai, which remanded in police custody till April 25.

The accused have been booked under Indian Penal Code section 307 (attempt to murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) and relevant provisions of the Arms Act.

At around 5 am on Sunday, two motorcycle-borne men had opened fire outside the 58-year-old actor's house in Bandra area of Mumbai and fled the spot.