In a shocking turn of event, former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique has been shot dead on the evening on Saturday. The senior leader of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was a close aide of Salman Khan, which has been cited as a reason for his killing. The responsibility of the attack has been claimed by the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The same gang has been allegedly associated with the murder of Sidhu Moosewala.
They have also been in the news lately for public threatening Salman, but who is Lawrence Bishnoi and what is his history?
Who is Lawrence Bishnoi?
Lawrence Bishnoi, was born in 1993 in Punjab, Abohar, who later shifted to Chandigarh in 2010 for his studies at DAV College. He became an active member of the Panjab University Campus Students Council in 2011 with which he had the opportunity to work along Goldy Brar. That defined their relationship from university politics to criminal deeds.
Bishnoi gang has carried out several criminal offences which includes with extortion, killings and drug peddling. He is known for his connections in the underworld mafia and holds an influence over criminal gangs in Punjab and Haryana region.
Salman is one of the most famous people on Bishnoi’s radar. Although Bishnoi’s gang has threatened the actor several times and there have been several tries to assassinate him. It was the year 2018, when a man tried to kill the actor but failed and later named Bishnoi to be the mastermind behind the whole plot.
It is established that between 2010 and 2012 the accused Lawrence Bishnoi became involved in criminal activities in Chandigarh and FIRs for grievous offenses were registered against him. To this date, half of the seven cases have been dismissed and three of them are ongoing, though he was acquitted of all four charges preferred against him. By 2013, Bishnoi was become infamous, being accused to several murders including that of a winner of the Government College electoral race in Muktsar. His gang moved to dealing in hard substances, moving to liquor and extending to dealing in guns, as well as shelter to other criminals.
A report sent by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) analyzed connections between Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar, and pro-Khalistan groups which causes concerns about a possibility of politically motivated organized crime. Bishnoi rose to fame in 2018 when his partner, Sampath Nehra, reconnoiter Bollywood star Salman Khan’s home. Nehra testified that he was told to gun down Khan because of the actor’s involvement in the Black Buck poaching saga. In an encounter with the media during a court appearance in Jodhpur, Bishnoi threatened Salman in pretty raw language, claimingly that he will be killed in Jodhpur.
