New Delhi: The Mumbai Police is investigating several attacks and threats allegedly carried out by the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The recent shooting at actor Tiger Shroff’s car is also among the cases under investigation. Bishnoi is lodged in Gujarat’s Sabarmati Central Jail, where a Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order bars his transfer and prevent investigators from taking him into custody for questioning.
The police are working to establish the roles of individual suspects and the extent of the alleged network’s involvement. who is held at Delhi’s Tihar Jail, are named as wanted accused in Mumbai Police chargesheets, neither has been brought into the cases being heard in city courts Although Lawrence and his brother Anmol Bishnoi. They have not been named as an accused in the attack on Shroff so far. The decision could be based on the nature of the offence, the risk of a public-order disturbance and the public interest. It does not, by itself, mean that investigators can never question him. The police can seek permission for questioning in the prison through the applicable judicial process, subject to the restrictions and orders in force. Shroff escaped unhurt, while his driver and another person suffered injuries. The three alleged shooters were arrested in Kota, Rajasthan, while reportedly trying to flee to Nepal. Investigators sought additional custody to recover the firearms used in the attack and establish the motive and the alleged conspiracy. The investigation is also looking into the possible involvement of people operating beyond the spot of the shooting. The alleged association between the suspects and the Bishnoi gang is a matter for investigators to establish through evidence, including communications, financial transactions and the roles played by those arrested.
Section 268 of the CrPC allowed the government to stop investigating agencies from taking a prisoner into their custody and moving him out of the jail where he is held. Section 303 of the BNSS retains this power and also allows the Central government to exercise it in cases investigated by its agencies. The Mumbai Police arrested three men in connection with the October 18 incident in which gunmen allegedly fired at the actor’s car in Juhu. They were brought to Mumbai, where a court remanded them in police custody until October 31.
The police also told the court that two mobile phones had been destroyed.
