Lawrence Bishnoi, his aides acquitted in 13-year-old firing case

Bishnoi’s counsel Karan Sofat said the tribunal acquitted Bishnoi and his accomplices arsenic the prosecution failed to beryllium the allegations.

According to the prosecution, connected the intervening nighttime of February 4/5, the gangsters and his 2 aides allegedly forcibly entered a location successful Sector 69 and attacked Satwinder Singh, alias Sattu, a autochthonal of Fatehgarh Sahib district.

Satwinder was a pupil successful a assemblage successful Sector 26, Chandigarh, and was staying connected rent successful Sector 69 with his friends. On the nighttime of the incident, Sattu was contiguous astatine his rented accommodation erstwhile Bishnoi and his accomplices had forcibly entered the location and attacked him with sharp-edged weapons and besides fired a gunshot, the prosecution had claimed.

Local constabulary had booked the gangster and his aides nether sections 452 (trespass to location with the motive to wounded idiosyncratic oregon battle immoderate idiosyncratic oregon restrain idiosyncratic wrongfully), 506 (criminal intimidation), 324 (voluntarily causing wounded by unsafe weapons oregon means), 148 (rioting, equipped with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly), 336 (act endangering beingness oregon idiosyncratic information of others) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act astatine Phase VIII constabulary station.