Moga police hands over gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to Faridkot police
Kulwinder Sandhu
Moga, August 10
The Moga police have on Wednesday handed over the custody of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to the Faridkot police.
The Faridkot police had demanded his custody from a local court to investigate a case against him at Kotkapura in Faridkot district, last year.
The Moga police had arrested Lawrence Bishnoi and brought him on production/transit warrant at Moga on August 1 and obtained a 10-day remand from a judicial court to investigate an attempt-to-murder case.
On Wednesday, the police remand ended and the Moga police did not seek further extension. The Faridkot police filed an application before a local court seeking transit remand to take Bishnoi to Kotkapura police station.
Cloth merchant Sumit Kumar running his business from Shastri Market in Kotkapura had reported to the local police on July 18, 2021, that he had got a call from gangster Goldy Brar from Canada. He had demanded Rs 50 lakh from him as ransom and mentioned that he belonged to the Bishnoi gang. Brar had sent messages to Sumit threatening to kill him and his family, according to his recorded statement.
The Kotkapura police had registered a case against Brar, Bishnoi and two others.
“Lawrence Bishnoi will be interrogated in this case registered at Kotkapura police station,” a Faridkot police official said while adding that he will be produced before a local court in Faridkot later in the day to seek his custody.
Moga SSP Gulneet Singh Khurana said the Moga police had handed over Lawrence Bishnoi to the Faridkot police. “We have now sought the police custody of another dreaded gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria whose name has cropped-up during Lawrence Bishnoi’s interrogation in a murder bid case”, he said.
Moga police hands over gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to Faridkot police
