JAIPUR: City police arrested the main aide of notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi for allegedly helping in an extortion call. Additional commissioner of police, Ajay Pal Lamba, said that the police arrested Anand Shandaliya (50), for helping Bishnoi in making extortion calls to a city-based building.
Bishnoi was brought to Jaipur on a production warrant from Tihar Jail, New Delhi, along with his man Friday Sampat Nehra. “Shandaliya knew the builder and passed on his information to Bishnoi’s gang. We had been on surveillance after the builder filed an FIR,” Lamba said, adding that the accused earlier worked with slain gangster Anandpal Singh.
Police said that Shandaliya was earlier arrested by the Special Operations Group (SOG) as one of the ring leaders of a blackmailing racket. “He was sent to Ajmer jail where he struck a rapport with Bishnoi,” Lamba said, adding that police have unravelled the Bishnoi’s main network in the city.
The builder had filed a complaint at Jawahar Nagar police station on September 7, alleging that he had received WhatsApp calls from unknown numbers. The caller introduced himself as Bishnoi and demanded extortion of Rs 1 crore. A special police team was constituted and found that call was made from Mandoli jail by Sampat Nehra. Both Nehra and his boss Bishnoi were arrested.
