Kabaddi player Sandeep Nangal was shot dead on Monday in Jalandhar, Punjab. When the match was being played in the Kabaddi tournament, at that time suddenly indiscriminate firing started. It is learned that about 20 rounds were fired on his head and chest. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi took the responsibility for being involved in Kabaddi player Sandeep Nangal Ambiya's murder case on Tuesday.
Who is gangster Lawrence Bishnoi?
He is a well-known criminal in Punjab and Student Organization Punjab University (SOPU) leader. He has been imprisoned many times for his evil deeds.
He has over 25 cases registered against him including cases of attempt to murder, extortion, snatching, carjacking and under the Arms Act in Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.
How did he become a gangster?
He is the eldest son of his parents. He was passionate about wrestling and used to practice at an akhaara behind Sukhna Lake. He was an introvert. During his later days in college, he managed to form a gang of youngsters including sportspersons and wards of police personnel. Students from well-to-do families considered themselves lucky to stay in his company. Some of his college friends are still loyal to him. The first FIR against Bishnoi was of an attempt to murder, followed by another house-trespass in April 2010. In February 2011, a case of assault and robbery of a cell phone was registered against Bishnoi. All the cases are related to student politics. In the initial years, Bishnoi was nowhere in the world of crime in Punjab and Haryana. There were already so many gangsters active in these two states that it was difficult for him to survive. He had connections with a gangster-turned-politician from Fazilka, Jaswinder Singh, alias Rocky who was gunned down near Parwanoo in May 2016. He along with his accomplices preferred to stay active in Rajasthan, especially Sri Ganganagar, Bharatpur, under the garb of student politics. Bishnoi has built a cult of followers through his friends, who are operating his different Facebook accounts, depicting him as a patriot keen to help needy people.
Lawrence Bishnoi & Salman Khan Controversy
He came into the limelight in January 2018, Lawrence belongs to the Bishnoi community, for whom blackbucks, a protected species under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, are sacred. He had given life threat to Salman Khan ahead of a court hearing of the 1998 Blackbuck poaching case and his men were nabbed doing recce of his house in Mumbai. After this, Bishnoi gained a lot of fame in this field.
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Other cases against Bishnoi
The property dealer, Rajveer alias Sonu Shah was gunned down by four assailants inside his office at Burail village in Sector 45 on September 28, 2019. Lawrence Bishnoi during interrogation revealed that he had asked his aide gangster Raju Basodi- who carried a reward of ₹2.5 lakh, to kill Sonu Shah and they had hired contract killers Rajan Jaat and Subham Prajapati for the same. Haryana Special Task Force, in a joint operation with Thailand Police, arrested Raju Basaudia from the southeast Asian country. The responsibility for this murder was also taken by Lawrence on his FB page "Lawrence Bishnoi" on 30 Sep 2019.
Apart from this, a day after civic body election results, two unidentified men shot dead 35-year-old Youth Congress district president and Zila Parishad member, Gurlal Singh Pehalwan, near the Jubilee Chowk in Faridkot city on 18-02-21. The accused fired 13 shots at Gurlal and he sustained seven bullets, including two at the back of his head and five on his stomach and chest. Hours after the murder, a Facebook profile in the name of gangster "Lawrence Bishnoi" owned responsibility for the killing. “We don’t want to prove anything by posting this, but we don’t want police to bother innocents. I, Bishnoi and Goldy Brar take responsibility for killing Gurlal Pehalwan in Faridkot.