Mumbai: Hari Chand Jat alias Harry Boxer, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, has been detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency. This came days after the Mumbai Police issued a Look Out Circular against him for sending extortion threats to Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh and filmmaker Rohit Shetty.
In the three-minute voice clips sent to Singh and Shetty’s teams, he allegedly threatened the duo with “dire consequences” if they did not “fall in line” and meet his demands, as reported by Hindustan Times.
It has also been alleged that Boxer, on February 14, made extortion calls to a Madhya Pradesh-based businessman. He was also allegedly involved in the incident of firing at actor and comic artiste Kapil Sharma’s Kap’s Café, in Surrey, Canada, on October 17, 2025, the police claimed.
Since several offences such as extortion, robbery and attempt-to-murder are registered against the accused in Rajasthan, Punjab and Delhi, and Look-Out-Circulars (LoCs) were issued against him, he was detained in California earlier this week, the Mumbai Police said.
“We have information that Boxer was detained by ICE three to four days ago, following which threat calls to Bollywood personalities and businessmen in the city have come to a halt,” a senior police officer, who did not wish to be named, has been quoted as saying.
The process of his extradition to India will begin soon, “although it is unclear how much time that will take,” the officer added.
“After receiving information about his detention in the US, we have registered an offence against him for threatening and trying to extort Rs 20 crore from actor Ranveer Singh,” the officer said, adding that Singh’s social media in-charge and manager, Vijay Subramanian, CEO of Collective Artists Network, lodged a complaint on February 17 at the South Cyber Cell of the Mumbai police crime branch after receiving the threats.
Subramanian, in his complaint, stated that he had received calls from unknown international numbers on February 10. When he didn’t answer them, the caller, who identified himself as Boxer, left a voice note demanding Rs 20 crore from the actor. After the threats, security outside the actor’s Prabhadevi residence was beefed up.
“We will send the voice note to the forensic laboratory after receiving Boxer’s voice samples available with the police in Rajasthan and Punjab where he was earlier arrested in criminal cases. We have preliminary confirmation that the threat voice note is in Boxer’s voice,” said the police officer.
He claimed to be a “loyal aide” of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in the voice note and threatened to teach a lesson to actor Ranveer Singh, claiming that he had gone back on his word – perhaps after agreeing to pay the gang, said an investigating officer.
Abusing the duo for taking the gang lightly, Harry says that the gang is aware of the whereabouts of the film personalities’ respective teams, including how they commute from their homes to workplaces, and that they would soon start eliminating them one-by-one, if their demands were not met.
