Burail firing incident: Chargesheet filed against Lawrence Bishnoi’s aide Monty Shah, six others

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 8

The UT police have filed a chargesheet against seven persons, including Monty Shah, alleged member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, in a firing incident at Burail village. The police had arrested Monty Shah in May this year.

The police had registered a case against Monty Shah on October 12, 2020 on a complaint of Tirath Singh, who alleged that Monty fired shots at him and his partner in cable business Parveen while he was talking on phone near his office in Burail village.

Monty was allegedly caught on a CCTV camera with a gun and firing around six rounds on Tirath Singh in Burail. He alleged that Monty Shah wanted to eliminate him and Parveen. However, the duo escaped unhurt in the incident.

Tirath Singh alleged that members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang allegedly killed Sonu Shah, brother of Parveen, last year in the same office.

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

The chargesheet has been filed against Vinay Kalyan, Mohit, Deepak, Parvinder, Virender Soni, Monty Shah and Kuldeep Singh Gogal under Sections 307, 120-B and 212 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act.

Monty Shah was on the run after the firing incident. The police had announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information leading to his arrest. Monty Shah is also facing extortion and robbery cases. The police claimed that after the alleged firing incident in Burail, Monty escaped to Kalka in a car and stayed at the house of his cousins, Vinay and Mohit. The police had arrested both his cousins and recovered the car, too. The police claimed that Monty had by then fled to Rajasthan.