Burail firing: Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s aide, 6 others to face trial for murder bid

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 27

Monty Shah, an alleged member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and six other accused will face trial for attempt-to-murder charge in a firing incident at Burail village as the trial court has committed the case to the Sessions Court.

Monty Shah was arrested by the UT police in May this year. The police had registered a case against Monty Shah and others for commission of offence punishable under Sections 307, 120-B and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act added Section 212 of the IPC on a complaint of Tirath Singh. The complainant alleged that Monty Shah fired shots at him and Parveen on the directions of Lawrence Bishnoi. Both of them were witnesses in the alleged murder case of property dealer Sonu Shah.

After Sonu’s murder, the Bishnoi group allegedly took the responsibility for his killing in a Facebook post.

Monty Shah was allegedly caught on a CCTV camera with a gun and firing around six rounds on Tirath Singh in Burail on October 12, 2020. Tirath alleged that Monty wanted to eliminate Parveen and him on the directions of Bishnoi as both were witnesses in the murder case of Sonu Shah. However, Tirath and Parveen escaped unhurt in the incident.

The police had already filed a chargesheet against all accused – Monty Shah, Kuldeep Singh Goshal, Parwinder Wadhwa, Virender Soni, Deepak Wadhwa, Vinay Kalyan and Mohit Kumar last month.

The police claimed that after the alleged firing incident at Burail, Monty escaped to Kalka in a car and stayed at the house of his cousins – Vinay and Mohit. The police had arrested both of his cousins and recovered the car too.

After hearing the arguments, Sanjay, Judicial Magistrate, First Class, in the order, said: “After hearing the additional public prosecutor for the state, the counsel for accused persons and going through the report under Section 173 of the CrPC, it appears that the accused persons have committed offence punishable under Section 307 of the IPC. The offence under Section 307 of the IPC is exclusively triable by the Sessions Court. Accordingly, the case is committed to the Court of District and Sessions Judge”.