Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in Sabarmati jail: There are 79 cases registered against him. Police need to arrest him in 10 cases. 40 cases are pending in court. That Lawrence Bishnoi has not been released from prison in the last 14 months. Nor can police in any Indian state take him out of jail for questioning over the next 12 months.
In fact, India’s Home Ministry has given such security cover to notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi under a special legal section that Lawrence cannot be released from Sabarmati Jail in Gujarat before August 2025.
Lawrence Bishnoi is lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail.
Of the total 1,319 jails present across the country, if all eyes are on one jail, then it is this jail. It is said that out of the total 16 jails in Gujarat, this is a central jail. But this is the same Sabarmati Central Jail present in Ahmedabad, which is the address of Lawrence Bishnoi, the gangster who has become famous by the police and media in recent times. Currently, about 2,600 prisoners are housed inside this jail and Lawrence Bishnoi is one of those 2,600.
Lawrence has been locked up alone in jail for 14 months.
Sabarmati jail has two parts. A new prison and an old prison. Lawrence is currently housed in the old jail. There are ten rooms together in a separate part of the old jail. 9 of them are vacant. While Lawrence has been living alone in the tenth room for the last 14 months. In the last 14 months, since Lawrence was taken to Sabarmati jail, no stranger has met him. During these 14 months, neither his family members came to see him, nor were any strangers allowed to meet him, nor did he himself leave prison to appear before any other court. What’s more, in these 14 months he was never able to meet face to face with his lawyer.
However, some meetings took place during this period. There were also some conversations with the lawyer about the case. But all this happened via video conference. That is to say, in one line, since he came to Sabarmati jail, for the last 14 months, except for some special jail staff, Lawrence has been alone.
Drugs worth Rs 200 million found on Pakistani ship
It is early 2023. Lawrence Sidhu was then lodged in Bathinda Jail in Punjab in the Moosewala murder case. Here, Lawrence was in Bathinda jail and on the other hand, the Gujarat ATS i.e. Anti-Terrorism Squad was investigating a drug case and a drug syndicate case. In fact, on September 14, 2022, the Gujarat ATS, in a joint operation with the Indian Coast Guard, captured a Pakistani ship near the Kutch district port. Heroin worth approximately Rs 200 million was recovered from this Pakistani ship named Al-Tayyasa.
Lawrence will be held in Sabarmati prison from August 24, 2023.
During the investigation of this case, it came to light that Lawrence Bishnoi has connections to this drug shipment in India. Since the case was important and Lawrence needed to be interrogated, the Gujarat ATS filed an application in Delhi’s Patiala House Court to arrest Lawrence and interrogate him. As soon as the application was approved, he was shifted from Bathinda to Gujarat’s Naliya Court on August 24, 2023. The court later sent him to Sabarmati Jail in judicial custody. And from August 24, 2023 till now, Lawrence Bishnoi is lodged in this jail.
Although the Gujarat ATS took him from Delhi to Gujarat for questioning in his case, despite having arrest warrants in ten different cases registered in different states, the police of any state took Lawrence out of Sabarmati jail and took him for interrogate him. with me.
79 cases are registered against the gangster
A total of 79 cases have been registered against Lawrence in five states. Most of these cases like extortion, threats, attempted murder, murder, kidnapping, etc. are registered. Of these 79 cases, there are 40 that are still pending in the courts of different states of the country. Since no arrests have been made in ten cases, the trial is still waiting to begin. There were nine such cases in which Lawrence was acquitted by different courts. He has been convicted in 2 cases. The remaining 79 cases are waiting to begin.
By the way, for your information, let us tell you that till date i.e. till October 23, Mumbai Police has not registered any case directly in the name of Lawrence Bishnoi in the Baba Siddiqui murder case. If this is recorded in future, Lawrence Bishnoi will have 80 cases against him.
The law of the land is one, but why is it different for Lawrence?
Now the question is that when the law in the country is the same, the punishment for the crime is the same, the way the court works is the same, then when the ATS of Gujarat can take Lawrence Bishnoi of Bathinda to Ahmedabad in a drug case, then the rest Why can’t the states police take him out of Sabarmati jail and take him to their state on remand for their respective cases? If the reason is that Sabarmati is the most secure jail and from here Lawrence cannot contact his gang through mobile, then this reason is also absurd.
Lawrence had spoken to the Pakistani drug mafia by video call
You will remember an audio. In which the voice was Atiq Ahmed. Atiq Ahmed was also detained in the same Sabarmati prison where Lawrence is currently detained. And he ran his gang from here by phone. If we talk only about video calling, it was revealed in June this year. In which Lawrence Bishnoi is sitting in Sabarmati jail and talking to a Pakistani drug mafia. Wishing you a happy Eid. These two features are enough to show how safe Sabarmati jail is.
Section 267 of the CRP prescribed the method of appearance and trial.
So the question is why hasn’t Lawrence come out of this Sabarmati jail for the last 14 months? Or expelled? So this also has a history. Section 267 of CrPC i.e. Code of Criminal Procedure states when, how and why an offender should appear before the court during trial. As per the judicial process of our country, the police arrest the accused and then produce them before the court. Now, based on witnesses and evidence, the court decides whether the person caught by the police is guilty or innocent.
CRPC explains this procedure for criminals
That means any crime is decided within the threshold of the court. According to this section 267 of CrPC, our law gives the police the right to produce criminals before court. If the offender is from some other state and has committed the offense somewhere else, then this section gives the police the right to take him with them to their state for interrogation or trial through transit remand from the court of that state. far. That is, if Lawrence Bishnoi has committed any crime in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan or Mumbai, then the police of all these states are required to take him to their respective places for interrogation or prosecution.
Section 268 of the CrPC has become Lawrence’s security cover.
So why, despite so many cases, Lawrence Bishnoi has not come out of Sabarmati jail for the last 14 months? Why didn’t the police of any other state take him with them to their state for questioning or trial? Just as Section 267 of the CrPC allows an offender to be remanded in transit, interrogated in police custody or tried by producing him before the court, on the contrary, Section 268 of the CrPC removes all these rights and the CrPC. 268 is the highest safety coverage for Lawrence Bishnoi right now. However, both the name and number of this section have changed in the new IPC and CrPC. But the rights are the same. Now the question is why is Section 268 security coverage only for Lawrence? And why was this section imposed on Lawrence?
Three reasons to impose article 268
In fact, Section 268 of the CrPC has now become Section 303 of the Indian Civil Security Code (BNSS) under the new law. The law says that this article can only be imposed on any offender in three circumstances. Firstly, the crime for which the offender was sent to prison; Secondly, if that criminal is released from jail in any case or in any other case, then he may pose a threat to law and order or his own life may be in danger. and Third public interest. You can also call this a media trial. That is the case of that criminal, who constantly appears in the headlines.
This is how the Ministry of Home Affairs imposed section 268 of the CrPC
So Lawrence Bishnoi has been lodged in Sabarmati Jail for the last 14 months due to the three reasons in this section. On August 24, 2023, as soon as Lawrence Bishnoi reached Sabarmati jail from Bathinda jail, the Home Ministry quickly applied Section 268 of the then CrPC on Lawrence. Then it was for a year. Just two months ago, when the year ended in August, the Home Office extended the same section that prohibits Lawrence’s release from prison until August 2025. That is, until August of next year, no agency of the India, no state police will be able to call him or bring him to their state and interrogate him for any crime committed by Lawrence or his gang. Nor can his preventive transit detention be withdrawn before any court.
Lawrence will remain in Sabarmati prison until August 2025
So the question arises here: how will the 79 cases against Lawrence be resolved? Or how will the police of those states who need to question Lawrence in different cases interrogate him? So this very section states that if Lawrence has to be interrogated for any case, any case, then the police of that state will have to ask permission from the court and come to this same Sabarmati jail and within this jail Lawrence will have to be interrogated . . During this time, if there is any case against Lawrence in any court and Lawrence’s presence is necessary, then in such situation, he will be a part of that case through video conferencing from Sabarmati jail. That means that, in any case, Lawrence’s permanent address will be Sabarmati prison at least until August 2025.
(With contributions from Manisha Jha)
