The remote and underdeveloped area of Bhuj in Gujarat bordering Pakistan has become a convenient hideout for the shooters of a jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, whose henchmen fired at Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s residence in Bandra earlier this month. The shooters of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala were also nabbed in Bhuj city in the westernmost district in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. Sources have told mid-day that the henchmen of the gangster get arms and ammunition from the neighbouring country through drones. “Drug traffickers as well as human trafficking gangs are active in Bhuj city,” said a source.

Salman at his farmhouse. File pic 

After firing indiscriminately at Galaxy Apartment in Bandra, Bishnoi’s motorcycle-borne shooters, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, abandoned their bike and reached the westernmost district in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, where they had been waiting for the next instruction from jailed gangster Lawrence’s brother, Anmol Bishnoi, to cross the border illegally. According to sources, the Crime Branch is probing whether Anmol was in touch with local human traffickers who could have facilitated Gupta and Pal to illegally cross the border to reach a haven in Pakistan.