Acting sternly against the criminals, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police led by Commissioner of Police Swapan Sharma has arrested eight gangsters of Lawrence Bishnoi gang, with weapons, involved in extortion, ransom, threat and other criminal activities.
Jalandhar Commissioner of Police on Thursday said that on January 27, 2024, owner of Karma Fashion Showroom received an extortion call demanding a substantial sum of Rs 50 lakhs. “Swinging into action, the Commissionerate Police registered FIR, dated January 29, 2024, under sections 387, 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 25-54-59 of the Arms Act at Police Station Division 4 Jalandhar, and started investigation into the matter,” he said.
Sharma said that during the investigation, it became evident that the gang members had systematically gathered information about industrialists and businessmen, using this knowledge to extort money.
He said that based on investigation, the Police arrested eight gangsters identified as Sanjay Bawa, Deepak Kumar alias Deepak, Gajinder Rajpurat alias Gajju, Radhe, Abhishek Gill, Pappu, Manoj, and Deepak Kumar alias Deepak — all from Jalandhar. “All these gangsters have been arrested from Dhobi Ghat near TV Tower Jalandhar and one Pistol 30 bore with five cartridges, one pistol 32 bore with five Cartridge, one desi katta 315 bore, four magazines, one Splendor Motorcycle and two Scooter (Activa) have been recovered from them,” said Sharma.
The Commissioner added that during investigations, it came into light that the operations of these gangsters extended beyond national borders, with identified links to Suraj, currently residing in England.
Giving details of the modus operandi of the gang, the Commissioner said that the gang was involved in life-threatening calls and letters to extract money from people. He said that investigations with a major thrust on fetching details about the international number used for extortion calls is already going on.
Sharma said that no criminal background of all the eight gangsters have been traced so far but a detailed investigation is already going on.
