The Punjab Police on Sunday mentioned that it has busted an extortion module, which was exploiting the identify of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang, with the arrest of one of its members from Mohali.
The arrested accused, recognized as Vishal Kumar, 19, a resident of Maloya in Chandigarh, was working at an area salon.
Police have additionally recovered a .32 bore pistol together with two cartridges from his possession.
AIG Ashwani Kapur mentioned following a number of reviews of extortion makes an attempt and threatening telephone calls made by a person claiming affiliation with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, the police had launched an investigation into the matter.
After intelligence gathering, the police groups have been in a position to determine Vishal Kumar and his aide Kashmir Singh, alias Bobby, of Patiala because the prime suspects, he mentioned.
He mentioned following inputs, the groups raided attainable hideouts of suspects recognized and have arrested Vishal Kumar from TDI Wellington City, when he was going to satisfy Kashmir Singh, who was suspected to have taken shelter in the world.
However, Kashmir Singh couldn’t be arrested and the groups are looking for him to to arrest him, the AIG mentioned. Preliminary investigations revealed that the accused had additionally attacked the proprietor of SKULL membership in Mohali on May 11 to extort money from him, he added.
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