‘Gangster Bishnoi didn’t give TV interview while in our custody’

Jaipur: Police authorities in Jaipur have said that notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was kept under constant surveillance, so could not have given any interview here.
Currently lodged in Bathinda jail, Bishnoi appeared on a news channel on Tuesday.
His interview raised alarm bells ringing about security arrangements behind bars, even as the Punjab police categorically denied that this interview had taken place anywhere inside Punjab jails.
Talking to TOI, Jaipur police commissioner Anand Kumar Srivastava also said that Bishnoi was kept under round-the-clock surveillance. A team of Jaipur police had brought Bishnoi from Bhatinda jail in Punjab to the Jawhar Circle police station in the city on February 15 to interrogate him about his involvement in the Days Hotel firing and extortion case.
A team of nearly 20 police commandos ferried Bishnoi in an armoured vehicle to Jaipur. The Jawahar Circle police station was turned into a fortress with no outsider allowed to enter the police station premises, and Bishnoi was kept under constant watch.
A senior police official also shared a CCTV grab of the police station wherein Bishnoi is being escorted to the cell.
“One can clearly see that his hair is short in the CCTV. On the other hand, Bishnoi has full hair in his interview with the channel on Tuesday,” the official said.
Another senior official, part of the team that interrogated Bishnoi told TOI that the gangster was taken back to Punjab on March 7.
“We have examined all photographs of him under our custody. One can easily spot the difference that both his beard and moustache are trimmed when he was in Jaipur. In the interview, his beard and moustache are quite thick,” said the official.
Police said that Bishnoi was taken to Jaipur central jail on March 2 after completion of his remand period. The jail authorities also denied that Bishnoi gave any interviews from here.
“I don’t want to comment upon what the authorities in Punjab have said or not, there is no possibility of Bishnoi giving interviews from here,” said the official of the jail department.