PG owner shelters Bishnoi gang members sans verification, held
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Jaipur: The owner of a paying guest facility in Sriganganagar district, where four members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang were hiding, was arrested Sunday for allowing them to stay without any ID or police verification.
The four gang members posed as students and were planning an extortion attempt when police raided the PG and caught them with illegal weapons.
Police said Anand Kumar, 28, who runs Anand Boys PG in the Chhoti Naiyanwala area, ignored repeated instructions that no one should be allowed to stay in a hostel or PG without proper verification.
The police had already informed him about the orders, but he continued to rent rooms without checking documents.
A separate case was filed against him, and he was taken into custody after the raid.
On July 18, acting on a tip-off, the police raided the PG and found four youths - Dilpreet Singh, 23, (DK), Anil Legha, 30, Vishnu Kumar, 25, (Ninja), and Hiralal, 23, (Heera), armed with a Turkey-made Zigana pistol and 14 cartridges.
The suspects jumped from the third floor to escape but were caught and are now being treated at the district hospital for injuries. Two other youths were also arrested for breach of peace.
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