Lawrence Bishnoi, his aides acquitted in 13-year-old firing case
Bishnoi’s counsel Karan Sofat said the court acquitted Bishnoi and his accomplices as the prosecution failed to prove the allegations.
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According to the prosecution, on the intervening night of February 4/5, the gangsters and his two aides allegedly forcibly entered a house in Sector 69 and attacked Satwinder Singh, alias Sattu, a native of Fatehgarh Sahib district. (Express Photo)A district court on Thursday acquitted gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his two accomplices in a 13-year-old firing case. All the accused were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
The court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Neha Jindal acquitted Bishnoi and his two accomplices Navpreet Singh and Tarsem Singh. The trio was booked in 2011 in Phase VIII police station for allegedly firing gunshots in Sector 69.
Bishnoi’s counsel Karan Sofat said the court acquitted Bishnoi and his accomplices as the prosecution failed to prove the allegations.
According to the prosecution, on the intervening night of February 4/5, the gangsters and his two aides allegedly forcibly entered a house in Sector 69 and attacked Satwinder Singh, alias Sattu, a native of Fatehgarh Sahib district.
Satwinder was a student in a college in Sector 26, Chandigarh, and was staying on rent in Sector 69 with his friends. On the night of the incident, Sattu was present at his rented accommodation when Bishnoi and his accomplices had forcibly entered the house and attacked him with sharp-edged weapons and also fired a gunshot, the prosecution had claimed.
Local police had booked the gangster and his aides under sections 452 (trespass to house with the motive to hurt someone or assault any person or restrain someone wrongfully), 506 (criminal intimidation), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act at Phase VIII police station.
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