Nationalist Congress Social gathering chief and veteran Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique, 66, was shot useless on Saturday night time (October 12). Lengthy related to the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC), he additionally served as a state minister within the Congress-NCP authorities between 2004 and 2008. Siddique was additionally identified for sometimes mingling with high Bollywood stars, together with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.
Who’s Lawrence Bishnoi?
Lawrence Bishnoi, 31, is the son of a well-off agriculturist from the Dhattaranwali village in Punjab’s Ferozepur district of Punjab. He belongs to the Bishnoi neighborhood whose members have settled in Punjab, Haryana and plenty of elements of Rajasthan.
Bishnoi studied until Class 12 and later shifted to Chandigarh in 2010 to pursue a school training. Following enrollment in DAV School, he joined pupil politics and have become president of the Pupil Organisation of Panjab College (SOPU) between 2011 and 2012.
As per his felony file, the primary FIR towards Lawrence Bishnoi was for an try to homicide, adopted by one other FIR for trespass in April 2010. In February 2011, a case of assault and theft of a mobile phone was registered towards him. All three circumstances have been associated to pupil politics.
Ultimately, Jaswinder Singh alias Rocky, a gangster-turned-politician from Punjab’s Fazilka, joined his group. The group remained energetic in elements of Rajasthan, in cities like Sri Ganganagar situated on the Rajasthan-Punjab border, in addition to Bharatpur, underneath the garb of pupil politics. Rocky, who additionally had a felony background, was assassinated close to Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh in Might 2016. Infamous gangster Jaipal Bhullar had taken duty for the homicide. Bhullar was later gunned down in Calcutta in June 2020.
For a few years, the gang has been named in circumstances of revenge killings as a part of gang rivalries. Bishnoi has confronted two dozen circumstances of murders, makes an attempt to homicide, extortion and different crimes. At present, he’s lodged within the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad and is believed to be working his gang from contained in the jail. The gangster was taken to Gujarat by the state’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in reference to a case of cross-border drug smuggling.
Who’s the Lawrence Bishnoi gang identified to focus on?
Most not too long ago, the gang focused a Delhi-based Afghan nationwide named Nadir Shah to reportedly ship a message to his affiliate, who was not responding to their extortion calls for. Earlier than that, the Bishnoi gang was concerned within the homicide of a health club proprietor in Delhi.
Most infamously, Lawrence Bishnoi made headlines when Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot useless in 2022. Goldy Brar, a gang member, claimed duty. Brar first went to Canada in 2017 and was primarily based overseas. Different aides of Bishnoi are additionally believed to be in Canada and the USA.
In a social media put up, purportedly by Goldy Brar, it was claimed that Moosewala’s homicide was a revenge killing, carried out to avenge the homicide of youth Akali Dal chief Vikramjit Singh, aka Vicky Middukhera. Earlier this yr, Brar was declared a delegated terrorist by the Centre underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
For a lot of months now, the Bishnoi gang’s plans have reportedly concerned focusing on Salman Khan and sending him dying threats. In April, a number of bullet rounds have been allegedly fired outdoors the actor’s home in Mumbai. Since then, police vans have been deployed within the space and the actor has a safety element hooked up to him.
What has the police mentioned in regards to the Bishnoi gang?
As The Indian Categorical reported earlier, “With Mumbai’s underworld gangs led by Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Rajan and Ravi Pujari, amongst others, largely neutralised over the previous decade and a half, police suspect the Bishnoi gang, which has up to now been energetic primarily within the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and (western) UP, is trying to step into this vacuum.”
A police officer additionally mentioned that Bishnoi’s goals are sometimes related to Khan reportedly capturing a blackbuck in Rajasthan, due to the animal being revered by the Bishnoi neighborhood. Nevertheless, the officer added that focusing on Khan could also be an try by the gangster to achieve notoriety.
