Lawrence Bishnoi

Lawrence Bishnoi, whose gang is under the Punjab Police's radar for its alleged involvement in Sidhu Moosewala's death, entered the world of crime through ...

In July, 2020, Lawrence Bishnoi through his defense counsel had filed an application in the Chandigarh District Courts, Sector 43, saying that he feared being killed in a fake encounter and requested the court to instruct cops to always bring him in handcuffs on production warrants from jails to the courts. Though Lawrence Bishnoi had created a gang involving sportspersons and wards of police personnel during his college days, he was ushered into the world of crime by Jaswinder Singh, alias Rocky, a gangster-turned-politician of Fazilka. Lawrence along with his accomplices preferred to remain active in the region of Rajasthan especially in Sri Ganganagar, Bharatpur, under the garb of student politics. A former cop who had interrogated Bishnoi twice says, “Lawrence had two addresses including one of Hostel No 4 in Panjab University (PU) and another in Sector 4, Panchkula. He liked to stay in the company of his seniors. Lawrence belongs to the Bishnoi community, which is settled in Punjab, Haryana and many parts of Rajasthan. He is currently lodged in a Rajasthan jail. As the exam elevator was about to hand over him to the examination superintendent, the latter jumped out of a window from the first story building along with his answer sheet. As per his criminal dossier, the first FIR against Lawrence Bishnoi was of attempt to murder followed by another FIR of trespass in April 2010.