INDIAN media are reporting that Anmol Bishnoi, brother of notorious Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, is “apprehension of being targeted and killed” by a Pakistani gangster, Shehzad Bhatti, allegedly due to his recent posts on social media.
Anmol Bishnoi has filed a protection application, stating that “due to continuing threats, the applicant (Anmol here) and his family members are living under constant fear, mental trauma and apprehension of imminent danger.”
The plea said: “Such threats cannot be taken lightly, as recent incidents clearly demonstrate that online threats have translated into real-world violent attacks.”
It added: “Directions to be issued to the NIA for the accused to be taken in bulletproof vehicle and in bulletproof jacket during physical production and directions be issued to the authority concerned for conducting a threat perception and security assessment at the earliest.”
It also requested the court to order the authority concerned to conduct a “threat perception” and “security assessment” of Bishnoi.
Further in the plea, Anmol sought the court to issue directions to the investigating agency to provide him adequate armed police protection during transit from the NIA headquarters to the court premises.
Last September, Canada had listed the Bishnoi Gang as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code.
Anmol has been in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after he was arrested after being deported from the U.S.
In November 2024, The VOICE had reported that Anmol Lawrence was in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs in the state of Iowa, according to ICE’s website.
This confirmed reports in the Indian media that Anmol, then 25, had been detained in California by the US Immigration Department after it discovered that he had a forged travel document.
According to Indian media, the gang headed by Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dalla, who had recently been arrested in Ontario, has been involved in violent clashes in Canada with the gang led by Lawrence Bishnoi, who is currently in an Indian jail.
The Indian Express reported that a source had told them: “Anmol fled to the US on May 15, 2022 after making a fake passport in the name of one Bhanu. But he was exposed after the US Immigration Department found that one of the reference letters of a company, attached to his travel documents, was forged.”
Indian police have alleged that Anmol was involved in the murder of former Maharashtra state minister Baba Siddique and in the firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a reward of Rs. 1 million for information leading to the arrest of Anmol. Indian reports allege that was behind the May 2022 killing of internationally famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. After Moosewala’s murder, Anmol is said to have left India on a fake passport. A Red Corner Notice was issued for him in December 2022.
In 2023, he was photographed with famous Punjabi singers at a wedding in California.
In September, the Rajasthan state police said there were 31 cases, including 22 cases in Rajasthan, and nine arrest warrants against Anmol, the India Express reported.
