Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's younger brother Anmol arrested in US: Reports
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's younger brother-Anmol-who is wanted in India in several high-profile cases, has been arrested in the United States, media reports said Monday.
Bishnoi is wanted in cases such as the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022, the killing of ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, and the firing outside actor Salman Khan's Mumbai home in June this year.
Bishnoi was taken into custody earlier in the day, NDTV reported quoting sources.
Earlier this month, the Mumbai Police began the extradition process of Anmol Bishnoi after the United States alerted about his presence in the country.
The National Investigation Agency added Anmol's name to the most-wanted list.
A reward worth Rs. 10 lakh was also announced for Anmol's arrest.
After Siddique's murder, one of the Bishnoi gang members shared a post on Facebook where he hinted at Siddique's close ties with Salman and links to underworld people that cost him his life.
On the night of April 14, gunfire shook Mumbai's Bandra neighbourhood when two men on motorbikes fired multiple rounds outside Salman Khan's residence.
The attackers, linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, were charged with conspiracy to murder and other serious crimes.
The Bishnoi gang is operating with 700 shooters from five states with an outreach outside India as well.
Bishnoi, who is in jail, operates from prison using mobile phones. He is switched from one prison to the other. First jailed in 2012, he is now in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail where he was shifted from Delhi's Tihar Jail last year in August.
Why is gangster Lawrence Bishnoi?
Lawrence Bishnoi was just five when Salman Khan allegedly hunted down two endangered blackbucks along with his co-stars during a film shoot in Jodhpur in 1998.
In the same year, members from the Bishnoi community had filed a case against Salman and his co-stars from the film, Hum Saath Saath Hain.
Twenty-six years later, the threat on Salman's life looms large as Bishnoi, who was a kid in 1998, is now running a gang which has a team of about 700 shooters with the rage over the allegedly killing of blackbucks on.
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