The Delhi Police on Tuesday obtained three days’ custody of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in connection with an old case registered under Arms Act and for assault on a public servant.
According to officials, after questioning in Tihar jail, Bishnoi was produced before a Delhi court which granted police Bishnoi’s custody to grill him in connection with case wherein three criminals were arrested after a brief encounter with a Special Cell unit last month. During interrogation, the criminals had disclosed that weapons recovered from them were supplied by Bishnoi, a senior police official said. "Since Bishnoi has been taken into police custody, we will also be questioning him in connection with the killing of Moosewala in Punjab," he added.
According to police, Bishnoi has been arrested in connection with FIR NO.83/22 according to which three sharpshooters of dreaded ‘Gogi Gang’, named Mukesh (32), Harvinder (29) and Shakti (22) were involved in firing on rival gang members and their family members, firing on the house of an Assistant Superintendent of Tihar Jail, and killing eyewitness of a murder case.