JAIPUR: Police on Thursday took Anand Shandliya to a golf course for spot verification after he admitted during interrogation that the plan to demand money from a city-based builder was plotted there.
Besides spot-verification, Adarsh Nagar police also opened Shandaliya’s history sheet. “He comes under the category of what we classify as hardcore criminals. We have set up his history sheet because he has been involved in multiple criminal cases,” an official said, adding that Adarsh Nagar police station has been instructed to keep him under a close vigil.
Shandaliya was arrested on Sunday for allegedly helping out the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in making threat calls demanding money from a Jawahar Nagar-based builder on September 7. During the interrogation, the accused said the entire scheme was plotted in a golf course.
Besides his latest involvement with Bishnoi, Shandaliya’s name first cropped up in the Himmat Singh murder case in Vidhyadhar Nagar back in 2015. He was subsequently arrested in 2017 for being one of the ringleaders of a rape-extortion racket that netted the city’s leading hair transplant doctor.
He was sent to Ajmer high-security jail where he warmed up to Lawrence Bishnoi who was lodged in the same prison for a different case. Police suspect that Subash Baral, alias Subash Mund, another henchman of slain gangster Anandpal Singh and a co-accused in the case, had spoken to Shandaliya in the same golf course.
“Investigation into the case is underway. We are looking for Mund as he is absconding,” said the official.
Bishnoi and his aide Sampat Nehra have already been brought to Jaipur on a production warrant for the same case.
