Khan and Spratt married on July 5 in a registered ceremony under the Special Marriage Act, followed by a small, private celebration at the actor's Bandra home attended by around 150 close family members and friends. The couple had been together for roughly two years after reconnecting following a 25-year gap in contact, and Khan had spoken openly in the months prior about being "already married in his heart" to Spratt regardless of whether they formalised it.

The backlash arrived quickly and from more than one direction. An Ayodhya-based Hindu religious leader announced a reward of ₹5 crore for killing Khan, according to reports, in objection to the marriage. Days later, Maulana Ibrahim Hussain, Shahi Chief Mufti of the Muslim Personal Darul Ifta, issued a fatwa from the opposite direction, arguing under his interpretation of Sharia that a Muslim man cannot marry a non-Muslim woman unless she converts to Islam. He called the marriage sinful and said Khan should repent, adding that decisions by prominent Muslims like this one risked creating confusion about Islamic teachings. Khan and Spratt have not publicly responded to either the bounty or the fatwa.

Separately, members of the Bajrang Dal in Bihar's Forbesganj area staged a protest against the marriage, burning a large photograph of Khan and raising slogans against him. Local leader Manoj Soni accused the actor of "love jihad," alleging a pattern of Khan marrying Hindu women as part of a deliberate effort to weaken Hindu society, and warned of further action if Khan didn't stop.

Khan has been married twice before: to Reena Dutta from 1986 to 2002, with whom he shares children Junaid and Ira, and to filmmaker Kiran Rao from 2005 to 2021, with whom he shares son Azad. Spratt, a Bengaluru-based stylist and entrepreneur, has a six-year-old son from a previous relationship who was also present at the July 5 celebration alongside Khan's three children.

Neither Khan's team nor Mumbai Police have issued a public statement addressing the specific threats reported so far. Given the range and seriousness of what's already surfaced — a monetary bounty on the actor's life being the most serious among them — any official security response, if one comes, would be worth following closely rather than treating this purely as entertainment-page controversy.