Yesterday, Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi filed an application in a special court seeking direction to the NIA not to use the words 'terrorist' and 'gangster' in police and court papers without 'concrete' evidence for the same. Bishnoi is lodged in a jail in Ahmedabad in a drug trafficking case.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is investigating this case. Special Judge KM. Sojitra court sought response from NIA in the case and listed it for hearing on September 22. The court on Monday sent Bishnoi to judicial custody after his police custody ended in the 2022 case of recovery of drugs from a boat off the Gujarat coast. Bishnoi is also an accused in the murder case of singer Sidhu Moosewala.

Bishnoi said in the petition filed by his lawyer Anand Brahmbhatt that ''My most precious rights as a citizen of India should not be taken away by anyone. Please pass necessary orders regarding the above prayer''

Bishnoi, in his petition, said that he has been behind the bars for almost ten years, and has been continuously falsely implicated in various cases by various investigating agencies.

The petition states that  ''My rights as an accused have not been respected before any court concerned and I have been given the title of a gangster and now recently I have been given the title of a terrorist''

Bishnoi said he had 'strong objection' to anyone addressing him as a terrorist or a gangster. Bishnoi said he loved his motherland and would live and die for the country if he got 'justice'.