Two underage Punjab girls run away from home to meet jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi at Bathinda jail
Infatuated with Lawrence Bishnoi, two minor girls reportedly ran away from their home to meet the notorious gangster who is currently incarcerated in Punjab’s Bathinda Central Prison.
Officials said that the District Child Protection Agency received information about the two underage girls caught clicking selfies outside the jail by the prison authorities who later turned the girls over to them.
A report quoting Bathinda Child Protection Officer Ravneet Kaur Sidhu as saying that the minors had lied at home about going on a school trip and had reached Bathinda after having spent a night at the Bathinda railway station.
Kaur said the girls were questioned and revealed that they had been influenced by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi on social media and clicked selfies outside the Bathinda Central Jail—where Bishnoi is currently incarcerated—in order to show the pictures to their friends. The officer said that the girls have been detained.
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A senior police official said that the parents of the minor girls have been contacted and they have been taken to the Safi Center after receiving medical attention, adding that the incident is being investigated and further details will follow.
Lawrence Bishnoi was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 23 last year for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to recruit youth for carrying out terror attacks in Delhi and other parts of the country.
The notorious gangster is also suspected to be behind last year’s brutal gangster-style murder of popular Punjabi singer-rapper Sidhu Moosewala. Bishnoi is the prime suspect in Moosewala’s killing.
In a recent controversy, a Punjab-based news channel allegedly aired a live interview of Bishnoi from inside the Bathinda jail, however, the Punjab Prisons administration denied reports that the program was shot inside any prison in the AAP-ruled state.
In the video interview Lawrence Bishnoi claimed to be a nationalist and defended Moosewala’s murder.
Bishnoi also spoke about Sidhu Moosewala murder case in the interview revealing that Goldie Brar was involved in the artist’s killing. The gangster in the interview said he knew about the murder plot but wasn’t personally involved.
Bishnoi revealed that Moosewala’s killing was part of a gang war as the wildly popular singer-rapper was building an anti- front against the Bishnoi gang.
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