Through PTI
CHANDIGARH: Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who’s suspected to be keen on Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s killing, on Wednesday moved the Punjab and Haryana Top Courtroom.
Bishnoi approached the HC after chickening out his plea from the Delhi Top Courtroom wherein he had sought vital safeguards as he apprehended a “faux come across” via the Punjab Police.
Bishnoi was once lodged in Tihar Prison in reference to a case lodged below the stringent Maharashtra Regulate of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) and was once on Tuesday remanded in three-day custody of the Delhi Police Particular Cellular after it arrested him in an Palms Act case.
In his petition submitted thru advocates Sangram Saraon and Shubpreet Kaur, Bishnoi sought instructions that the jurisdictional Justice of the Peace in Mansa, Punjab, being restrained from turning in his custody to the investigating company in Punjab.
The petitioner sought issuance of suitable instructions for wondering him thru on-line/video convention facility or inside the precincts of Tihar Prison, New Delhi.
The petitioner submitted that there’s a severe danger to his lifestyles and a chance that upon being produced or whilst being introduced from custody in reference to the FIR registered via the Mansa police, he will also be “put to hurt or liquidated via adopting extrajudicial way”.
Bishnoi, 35, in his petition claimed that he was once being falsely implicated in reference to the homicide of singer Sidhu Moose Wala.
“The petitioner has been named within the FIR no-103 dated Might 29, 2022, most effective to hide up the inadequacies within the investigation. Additionally, the petitioner is being made a scapegoat and is being erroneously held accountable,” the petition stated.
“In truth, even earlier than the FIR was once registered, the highest maximum police authentic of Punjab Police had nearly declared the petitioner answerable for the grotesque homicide at the foundation of which FIR no 103 dates 29.05.2022 has been registered. In truth, the petitioner is lodged in Tihar Prison, New Delhi,” stated the petition.
The petitioner has been falsely and erroneously named within the FIR with none tangible proof, according to unreliable claims made on social media platforms, it additional stated.
Additionally, the petitioner does no longer have get right of entry to to social media platforms or conversation units, stated the petition.
On Might 29, Moose Wala was once shot useless via unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district, an afternoon after the state executive curtailed his safety quilt.
His cousin and a pal, who have been travelling in a jeep with him, have been additionally injured within the assault.
Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann has introduced putting in place a judicial fee headed via a sitting top court docket pass judgement on to probe the killing of 28-year-old Moose Wala.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, referred to as Sidhu Moose Wala, was once some of the 424 other people whose safety was once withdrawn or curtailed on Might 28 quickly.
Punjab police leader V Ok Bhawra had claimed that prima facie, it looked to be an inter-gang competition between the Lawrence Bishnoi team and Fortunate Patial team.
Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar, who’s the member of the Bishnoi gang, had allegedly claimed accountability for the homicide.