A Delhi Court on Wednesday sent jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi‘s brother Anmol Bishnoi to 11 days of custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA team led by Special Public Prosecutor Rahul Tyagi sought Anmol’s custody for 15 days.
In its remand papers submitted before the court of Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Sharma of Patiala House Court, the NIA said they needed gangster Anmol’s custody to “collect more evidence to unearth the conspiracy”.
The agency also said that they needed to find out “incriminating details” about other members of the Bishnoi gang including their locations and identities.
After his asylum application was turned down by a Louisiana court in the US, gangster Anmol, who is wanted as the main plotter in the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique in October last year who was shot outside his Bandra office, was deported from the US and reached India around 1 pm on Wednesday.
He was arrested by the NIA on arrival. Anmol was declared a proclaimed offender in January 2025.
The NIA team which also included advocates Jatin, Shubham Goyal, Amit Rohilla, and Priyansh Raj Singh sought his custody to find out the modus operandi. In its remand papers, the agency also said that the sources of funds (for the syndicate) needed to be interrogated.
Gangster Anmol Bishnoi being brought to the Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)
Anmol has over 30 cases pending against him across the country. The Central agencies are focusing on his alleged role in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in May 2022, NCP leader Baba Siddique’s killing last year, the firing outside actor Salman Khan’s house, among others.
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The US Department of State had sought information about cases in which Anmol had direct involvement and financial details in March this year, four months after his arrest there in response to India’s request for his extradition in January last year.
Anmol is among those who allegedly managed the extortion operations of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, a criminal syndicate operating in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi.
In May, 2022 Anmol fled to the US allegedly on a fake passport. In 2024, the US Immigration Department found that one of the reference letters of a company, attached to his travel documents, was forged. Anmol has been named by the NIA in two cases in which a bounty of Rs 10 lakh each had been announced.
The NIA also told the court that they needed Anmol’s custody to procure details of various social media accounts.
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As per the NIA’s remand papers, Anmol, who knows English and Hindi, discontinued his BA LLB from Madhav University, Rajasthan in 2017. The agency also submitted before the court that his father has been informed about the arrest and the grounds of arrest have also been supplied in the case.
Tyagi, a seasoned criminal lawyer, is also handling other sensitive NIA cases as the Public Prosecutor, including the Popular Front of India case, gangster Arshdeep Dalla’s case, and the ISIS module cases.
