Who is Lawrence Bishnoi linked to the high profile murder of singer Sidhu Moose Wala
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: May 30, 2022 06:20 PM2022-05-30T18:20:00+5:302022-05-30T18:20:00+5:30
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Punjabi singer-turned-politician Sidhu Moose Wala was killed by unknown gunmen near Jawaharke village in Punjab's Mansa district on Sunday, 29 May.
Punjab Police has claimed that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar, and their associates are involved in the killing.
Speaking to the media hours after Moose Wala's murder, Punjab DGP VK Bhawra said, "The Lawrence Bishnoi gang is involved in this murder. Lucky, a member of the gang, has taken responsibility from Canada".
31-year-old Lawrence Bishnoi was arrested in 2017, and was previously lodged in Bharatpur jail in Rajasthan. He was recently brought to Delhi's Tihar jail by the Delhi Police in connection to a MCOCA case. He is in jail no.8 of the Tihar Jail, as confirmed by DG Prisons Sandeep Goel. Lawrence is accused of crimes under IPC sections pertaining to attempt to murder, trespassing, robbery, and assault, among others.
The "gangster" who belongs to the Bishnoi community that believes blackbucks to be sacred, rose to notoriety when one of his aides was arrested in 2018 and had revealed plans of eliminating Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, allegedly after being asked to do by Lawrence.
It is pertinent to note that Khan was convicted in the blackbuck poaching case of 1998, and Lawrence' aides claimed that Lawrence wanted to "avenge the killing of blackbucks by Khan," reported The Indian Express in 2020.
Lawrence was born in Dhattaranwali in Punjab's Ferozpur district (now in Fazilka district) in a well-off family, and studied at DAV College, Chandigarh. He was also the president of Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) over a decade ago.
Lawrence's close aides include Sampat Nehra, who had disclosed the alleged Salman Khan plot to the police, Kala Jathedi, who has been booked under the MCOCA Act by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police and is currently lodged in the Tihar jail in Delhi, and Goldy Brar, who purportedly posted on Facebook about his involvement in the killing of Sidhu Moose Wala.
Earlier this month, three close aides of Lawrence and Goldy were arrested from Bathinda by the Punjab Police.
Goldy Brar, whose real name is Satinder Singh, is known to be a close aide of Lawrence Bishnoi. Based in Canada, Brar is wanted in several criminal cases in India such as the killing of Faridkot District Youth Congress president Gurlal Singh Pehlwan in 2021.Delhi Police had arrested a relative of Brar in connection with Pehlwan's murder. At that time, media reports quoting police sources had claimed that Pehlwan was murdered in retaliation for the killing of Gurlal Brar, a former SOPU chief, in 2020. Gurlal Brar also happened to be a cousin of Goldy Brar.
