The recent bounty announcement by the Kshatriya Karni Sena president Raj Shekhawat for any policeman who ‘encounters’ Lawrence Bishnoi, currently in Sabarmati Jail, raises the question of why the group is targeting the notorious gangster.
On December 5, 2023, shooters from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang arrived in Jaipur’s Shyamnagar and shot dead Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, firing a total of 17 rounds.
In 2020, Rohit Godara of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang had threatened to kill Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, calling him from multiple international numbers. In March 2023, Gogamedi requested police protection, but it was not provided.
Gogamedi was murdered by gangster Rohit Godara after becoming a target of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in 2017.
In 2017, gangster Anandpal Singh was killed in a police encounter. Gogamedi gained attention by staging a 15-day dharna with Singh’s body. Over time, he began forming an organization for Rajput upliftment, which drew the ire of Rohit Godara.
Gogamedi was a Rajput, while Godara was a Jat. Godara believed that Gogamedi always favored Rajputs. This led him to plot Gogamedi’s murder. Godara planned the murder meticulously for six months.
Godara hired Naveen Rathore, an acquaintance who frequently visited Gogamedi’s home, and recruited Nitin Fauji as the second shooter. Fauji had joined the Karni Sena just six months earlier.
A video from the day of the murder went viral on social media. On December 5, the trio visited Gogamedi under the pretext of delivering a wedding card. While Godara and Fauji were sitting in front, Rathore sat beside Gogamedi. The shooters shared tea with him in the dining hall before engaging in small talk.
To Gogamedi’s shock, the assailants shot him 17 times inside the house. Rohit Godara also shot Rathore. This incident ignited the ongoing enmity between the Karni Sena and the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
Lawrence Bishnoi is currently incarcerated in Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Jail, facing numerous charges, including murder, attempted murder, extortion, and drug and arms smuggling across various states.
A product of a gangster-terror network nexus, Lawrence Bishnoi has been named by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in several high-profile cases, including alleged his links with banned terror group Babbar Khalsa International, and smuggling of arms and ammunition from Pakistan.
Despite the NIA taking significant steps towards dismantling his criminal network, he continues to execute his design through a large group of henchman and sharpshooters in several states, especially in the north and west of India.
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