Mumbai: Actor Sonu Sood deposed as a prosecution witness before the special MCOCA court on Tuesday in the 2014 shooting incident related to producer Karim Morani. In his 2014 statement to the police, Sood had said that he had received a threatening message from someone who identified themselves to be “Don Ravi Pujari”.

Sood had then said that on August 26, 2014, a few days after the alleged shootout, at 1.45 am, he received an SMS from an international number saying, “Don't go to the USA show slam or i will kill you talk to me; pass this message to Shah Rukh Khan. Don Ravi Pujari.” The show was in connection to the promotions of their film “Happy New Year”.

On Tuesday, special public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat asked him several questions pertaining to the statement. Sood stood in the witness box placed at the front of court room number 55 of the City Civil and Sessions Court, Kala Ghoda. Several litigants and lawyers had come to catch a glimpse of the actor. Gharat said that Sood deposed in accordance to his earlier statement.

So far over 30 witnesses have deposed during the trial with a couple turning hostile.

During his cross examination by the defence, Sood said he could not remember the exact statement he had given to the police. The statement was then read out to him and in response to the defence questions he accepted the statement given. He denied that the story was concocted for the promotion of the movie Happy New Year in which he starring along with Khan and several others.

On August 23, 2014, around three men astride a motorcycle allegedly slowed down before producer Karim Morani family's four-storey house in Juhu, shot three rounds and sped away. Nobody was injured. It was alleged that Pujari wanted arrested accused Obaid Abdula to obtain the overseas rights of film Happy New Year.