Raja Warring seeks ban on docu-series on Lawrence Bishnoi, serves legal notice

Currently lodged in a Gujarat jail, Bishnoi, 33, is facing multiple criminal cases and is a key accused in the murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala and has multiple times threatened actor Salman Khan. He has also been named by the NIA in several high-profile cases. In September 2025, Canada listed the Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity. In the legal notice sent to Akshaya Joshi, Grievance Officer at ZEE5, Warring said ZEE5’s description of the series shows that “it would be glorifying a gangster which would amount to direct promotion of unlawful activities”.

He said that such content could “romanticize and legitimize criminal conduct” and create “aspirational value around criminality”. “The subject matter of the series… is not fictional in abstraction, but relates to a real individual associated with ongoing criminality, thereby attracting heightened legal scrutiny,” read the letter.

Director Raghav Darr claimed that the series was envisioned as more than just a crime story. “Our intent was to understand the ‘why’ behind the making of such identities: the environment, the influences, and the systems that shape them”. Producer Raghav Khanna of Riverland Entertainment said “the series has been approached with balance, restraint, and sensitivity”.