NEW DELHI, Nov 18: The notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s younger brother Anmol Bishnoi, wanted in connection with several high-profile cases, is learnt to have been arrested in the United States, sources said on Monday.
Among the cases for which Anmol Bishnoi is wanted in India included the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022 and the killing last month of ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, as also the firing outside actor Salman Khan’s Mumbai home in June this year.
Bishnoi, 50, was taken into custody earlier in the day, sources said. Earlier this month Mumbai Police’s crime branch division had begun the extradition process to bring Anmol Bishnoi back to India from the US. A special court in Maharashtra issued a non-bailable warrant for his arrest. A Red Corner Notice was issued by global law enforcement agency Interpol.
Bishnoi, from Punjab’s Fazilka, was earlier believed to be in Canada after fleeing India on a fake passport. He also faces two cases filed by the National Investigation Agency – India’s anti-terror unit. The NIA gad added him in its most wanted list and had announced a rewards of Rs 10 lakhs for his arrest.
The Bishnoi gang – which shot to the spotlight after the murder of singer Moosewala – made headlines again this year after the firing incident outside Salman Khan’s home on the night of April 14. Security was tightened at his house after the incident as threats continued to pour in – in the name of Lawrence Bishnoi – over the 1998 blackbuck hunting case.
(Manas Dasgupta)
