From Convent School to Tihar Jail: How Lawrence Bishnoi Made It ‘Big’ in Organized Extortion Business

For more than 10 years in the world of crime, embroiled in several dozen criminal cases with hundreds of other criminals, allegedly making contact with multiple prisons and operating from inside prisons, Lawrence Bishnoi, 30, is now making his mark in the organized world. increasing influence. Crime.

The murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, in which several gangs from different states were involved, was planned and executed. Both the Special Cell of Delhi Police and Punjab Police have named Bishnoi as the main conspirator in the case.

Sidhu’s murder is an example of the extent of organization between several gangs operating in different states.

The accused include members of the Gawli gang, believed to be enemies of the D-Company (Dawood Ibrahim), which is backed by the Pakistani ISI. Bishnoi is trying to rise to his level or not, but the way things are working and growing in his name in the last few years, it points towards a bigger law and order problem.

Police sources say that the murder of Moose Wala is under investigation, but the dastardly murder has certainly given easy access to more extortion by Bishnoi and others. He also says that such threats have increased significantly in the last few years. Former Deputy CM OP Soni, former MLA Harpratap Singh Ajnala and former MLA Amarpal Singh Boney Ajnala are getting threats in the name of Bishnoi.

gangster glorification

How do these gangs recruit people? As reported by The Tribune, Bishnoi once told a cop that social media was his place of recruitment. The apparently unemployed youth or brainwashed youth are fascinated by him and ask to be recruited and thus, express their loyalty to Bishnoi.

News18 probed several social media accounts created using Bishnoi’s name, glorifying him, showing videos of him in handcuffs, stroking his moustache and making purported video calls from inside jails.
There are hundreds of likes on these posts.

Do Prisons Help Make Contacts?

To a question whether Bishnoi has links with several hundred criminals, CP, Delhi Police Special Cell, HGS Dhaliwal in an interview with News18 said, “Bishnoi is an accused in different cases with around 400 different people. “

He also pointed to his transfer to several prisons in the last 10 years.

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Many of Bishnoi’s former acquaintances believe that this has helped him make contacts with other gangs. A former student leader, who spent time in jail with Bishnoi, said, “He was always very good with the prisoners, even though they were from opposite groups.”

crime trail

Educated from a convent school, then to a school in Chandigarh and a dropout from DAV College, Chandigarh, Bishnoi, the son of a police constable, took the road to crime long ago, without looking back. Those who knew him in those early years say that he was influenced by the fighting (supposed to one theory) and ‘popularity’ like gangster Shera Khubban, who was killed in a police encounter in 2012.

Coming to Chandigarh, Bishnoi wanted to join student politics and became the president of a union in the first year of college. Sopu paved the way. SOPU and PUSU are the two student unions in Panjab University, which dominated till 2014. The members of the unions not only used to be rivals in the elections, the animosity increased even more.

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An FIR was lodged against him and his “enemies” because of the enmity between the unions. Even among the members of the same union, there used to be fights and fights about who would hold the post of someone. Although many leave this life after some time to take up other professions, Lawrence has associated himself with the likes of Khubban. Those who knew or saw him in those days say that he was fascinated by the ‘badass’ approach.

However, Shera Khubban’s father mentioned in an interview with a web channel that he went to Bishnoi’s house and asked his parents to control their son in time. He said that Bishnoi used to go to Khubban’s court, give him almonds to eat. This was confirmed by a News18 person who was close to Bishnoi at that time.

But once he got down on his knees in it, there was no way out. And now that he cannot get out, he has made a life for himself in it. Police sources say that even though the threats are not from him or his men, he enjoys pretending to be his name. I

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