Alleged gunshots near Kangana's Manali residence, security deployed

Kangana Ranaut, who is currently staying with her family in Manali, reported hearing of gunshots near her house. The actor put out a statement and said that the Kullu district police have deployed security at her residence after the incident intended to intimidate her.

Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut has issued a statement over reports of gunshots being heard near her Manali residence on Friday night.

According to her, the Kullu district police deployed security at her house after the incident.

Kangana is currently staying in Manali along with her family. The actor believes that somebody did it purposefully to threaten her after her recent comments, related to Sushant Singh Rajput's death, surfaced the internet.

The actor in her statement said: "I was in my bedroom. I heard a cracker-like sound at about 11.30 pm. At first, I thought it must be a cracker. And then another shot happened, and I got a little alarmed since that sounded like a gunshot. I called my security in charge immediately... Let's see what this was and if this is repeated again. I have heard the sound of a bullet and I think it was definitely a bullet, very intently fired twice, two shots with a gap of about eight seconds between them. And it was right opposite my room. So it seems like someone was behind the boundary walls, there's a jungle and a water body there."

Kangana assumed that it is being done to intimidate her for being vocal after Sushant's death.

"I think some local people may have been hired to come near my place, you know, it is not difficult to pay someone seven-eight thousand rupees here and assign them something like this. To do this to make a statement on the day I called out the chief minister's son -- I don't think it was a coincidence. People are telling me that they will now make your life miserable in Mumbai. Well, I don't have to be in Mumbai, they are doing it here also. Is there open goondagardi in this country? This is how Sushant must have been frightened. But I will continue to ask questions," the actor stated.

Even though the Kullu district police immediately reached Kangana's house after the incident on Friday night and deployed security, as per her statement, it also claimed that after due investigation, the police did not find any evidence of mischief.

On a concluding note, Kangana in her statement said that the police will continue probing the incident.

With inputs from IANS