Sarfaroshi di tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, the young man singing this patriotic song in a video made from a phone in a jail barrack is Lawrence Bishnoi, India’s biggest gangster. On the wall of the room are photographs of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. After the song ends, Lawrence says, ‘To all the martyrs, I salute you… To all the Indian soldiers, who are on the border, I salute you.’ This is an old video made by Lawrence inside the prison walls, wishing everyone a Happy Diwali. At the end he ends the video by saying ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
This is not the first time that Lawrence has described himself as a worshiper of many revolutionaries including Shaheed Bhagat Singh to present himself as a patriot. Before this, he was wearing a T-shirt with the photo of Shaheed Bhagat Singh while appearing in the court. This time this video was going viral after the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddiqui on 12 October 2024 in Mumbai. Lawrence is also being said to be the mastermind behind the Nadir Shah murder on September 12 in Greater Kailash, a posh area of Delhi. Two sensational murders within a month… one in India’s capital Delhi and the other in the country’s financial capital Mumbai. He is on Canada’s hit list due to Bhai Nijhar’s murder case.
33-year-old Lawrence is facing more than 70 cases including murderous attacks, murders, extortion etc. He has been in jail since 2014. Meanwhile, he managed to escape from police custody at Mohali on 16 January 2015. He was arrested by the Punjab Police on 4 October 2015 after an encounter. Since then, he has been continuously lodged in the jails of Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat. Despite being in jail for a decade, he has been successful in expanding his syndicate across the country and abroad. Famous gangsters from almost all states are involved in his syndicate. In 2021, when it came to Delhi’s Tihar Jail, it has built the strongest gang alliance in North India. Many crimes have been committed from here.
Questions are being raised in India and Canada that Indian agencies are behind this. Questions have already been raised in the court that how the gangster Lawrence was interviewed in the presence of the police? The DGP of Punjab is also under the court’s suspicion. But So far the court has not reached any decision.
Lawrence himself, locked up in Gujarat’s Sabarmati Jail, has claimed several times during court appearances and through videos that he is against separatists and Khalistanis. What is his intention behind this? A police official says Lawrence is trying to project a patriotic image for himself as part of a deliberate plan. This is the reason why saffronists supporting him are coming forward openly on various social media platforms. After the assassination of Baba Siddiqui, there has been a flood of them. There are also accusations that Lawrence is being run as the messiah of the saffronists.
