Two days after a ransom call of Rs 1 crore to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's family in Muzaffarnagar and a subsequent assault on his brother there, the Bollywood actor's family is contemplating leaving UP for good. “The lives of our family members are in extreme danger. So the entire family, currently staying in Budhana, is planning to shift to Uttarakhand,“ said Nawazuddin's Mumbai-based brother Shamas Nawab.

Both the police and the Siddiqui family, however, are convinced that the phone call that came to one of the brothers, Faizuddin, on Thursday afternoon that demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore was from the family members of Afreen, the estranged wife of another brother, Majuddin.

Afreen's kin had filed a police complaint on September 28 alleging that Nawazuddin and his three siblings - Faizuddin, Majuddin and sister Saima - had physically assaulted her although she was three months pregnant, for not bringing in enough dowry and refusing her husband's demand for unnatural sex.

According to the police complaint filed by Majuddin on Friday, his elder brother Faizuddin, who was travelling to Lucknow on Thursday, got a call from an anonymous number to shell out Rs 1 crore or face consequences.

Minazuddin, another brother of Nawazuddin, revealed that Nooruddin and his associates were tormenting the family because of the immense success of Nawazuddin as a Bollywood actor.

D K Tyagi, station officer of Budhana police station, said, “From the contents of the complaint, the needle of suspicion is clearly pointing towards Nooruddin and others, but on Saturday we have begun the process of tracing the number and will soon get to know the real culprit behind the mischief.“