Gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar part ways: Report
New Delhi: A major split has reportedly occurred between notorious gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar, raising fresh concerns for central intelligence and state police forces monitoring their criminal networks.
Lawrence Bishnoi, currently lodged in Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail, and Goldy Brar, believed to be operating from the United States, are no longer working together, The Indian Express reported, citing sources.
Citing unnamed sources, the report stated that Brar has allied with Azerbaijan-based gangster Rohit Godara, while Bishnoi is said to be working with Canada-based Noni Rana. “Both the gangsters have decided to stop working together. This feud and their new syndicates are now a source of increasing tension for state police forces,” an intelligence official said.
The fallout reportedly stemmed from Bishnoi's anger over the handling of his brother Anmol's legal troubles in the United States. Brar and Godara allegedly failed to assist Anmol in securing a bail bond after his arrest by U.S. immigration authorities in November 2024 for allegedly using fake travel documents. Anmol was later released but with an ankle bracelet tracker.
Anmol Bishnoi (25) has been linked to the May 2022 murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala and is also named as the “mastermind” behind the killing of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique last year.
Sources further pointed out that gangsters these days do not make extortion calls directly from the U.S. but use VPN services linked to other countries. Investigations over the past few months have revealed that Noni Rana (Surya Pratap), younger brother of Haryana’s Yamunanagar-based gangster Kala Rana (Virender Pratap), has been operating from the U.S., making calls and collecting money on behalf of Lawrence Bishnoi, the report added, citing sources.
Further signs of the gang rift emerged last month when Brar and Godara reportedly claimed responsibility, via a social media post, for the killing of businessman Harjit Singh in Mississauga, Canada. Notably, they omitted any mention of Bishnoi or his associates, breaking from their usual pattern of naming co-conspirators.
Sources cited in the report said that during his early days in crime, Lawrence Bishnoi had formed a team with Goldy Brar, Kala Rana, and others. They added that Bishnoi later made a ‘business model’ involving alliances with gangsters from UP (Dhanajay Singh), Punjab (Jaggu Bhagwanpuria), Haryana (Kala Jatheri), Rajasthan (Rohit Godara) and Delhi (Rohit Moi and Hashim Baba).
Tensions within the Bishnoi-Brar gang alliance reportedly began to surface due to ego clashes, financial disputes, and overlapping extortion operations. “Things were working smoothly between them, but then it all started changing. First, there were ego clashes with Bhagwanpuria, who was supplying weapons to them and asking for more money. After some time, Kala Jatheri also separated after he found that Godara and Brar were making extortion calls to several people in Haryana, his stronghold,” TIE quoted its sources as saying.
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Karnataka Cabinet ratifies decisions on internal reservation for SCs
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka Cabinet has ratified its earlier decisions on internal reservation for Scheduled Castes and approved key modifications to streamline recruitment, including withdrawal and reissue of notifications and adoption of a 400-point roster system.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil on Thursday said the Cabinet reaffirmed its commitment to implementing internal reservation within the 15 per cent SC quota and expediting long-pending recruitment across departments.
"The Cabinet ratified decisions taken in earlier meetings (April 16 and April 24) and made modifications regarding reservation policies," Patil said.
He said the government will implement internal reservation within the 15 per cent quota for Scheduled Castes in specified proportions and revise recruitment notifications accordingly, with a 400-point roster to be followed.
If fewer than three roster points for SC arise in recruitment, then all 101 Scheduled Caste communities will be allowed to compete under SC general, he said.
Patil added that recruitment notifications issued without incorporating internal reservation will be withdrawn and reissued in line with the revised policy.
"If the Supreme Court approves 24 per cent reservation for SC/ST, six per cent backlog posts will be filled," he said, noting that urgent steps will be taken to fill 56,432 approved posts.
The latest decision follows the Cabinet's April 24 resolution that cleared a revised internal reservation formula within the overall 15 per cent SC quota, paving the way for long-pending government recruitment. The government had approved 5.25 per cent reservation each for the "right-hand" and "left-hand" groups, and about 4.5 per cent for other Scheduled Castes, including nomadic communities.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had then said the categorisation was worked out proportionately within the constitutional ceiling. "From tomorrow onwards, the recruitment process will begin with the issuance of notifications," he had said after the April 24 Cabinet meeting.
He also noted that the SC quota was fixed at 15 per cent and ST at three per cent in line with the 50 per cent cap laid down in the Indra Sawhney case, while pointing out that the Supreme Court had permitted internal reservation within constitutional limits.
