An novice boxer. An Ontario trucking firm boss. A social media consumer whose Instagram account options photographs of money and military-style weapons.
A categorised intelligence report obtained by World Information names the “key members” of the India-based gang that has been concentrating on South Asian Canadians.
The Lawrence Bishnoi gang’s prime leaders are profiled within the report by the Canada Border Providers Company’s Intelligence and Investigations Directorate.
They embrace: Goldy Brar, the gang’s “prime” North American lieutenant; Harry Boxer, who’s accused of a number of extortions in Canada; and Goldy Dhillon, an alleged “subcontractor.”
Dated December 2025, the CBSA Tactical Information describes the Bishnoi gang’s “rising operational presence in Canada,” “entry to massive quantities of cash” and “huge community” of recruits.
Written for immigration enforcement officers, it combines already-known and a few new particulars about “notable members” of the crime community blamed for high-profile killings, shootings and extortions.
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To commit their crimes, the leaders depend on “native younger males of Indian origin who act as unbiased contractors,” in addition to pacts with present gangs, the report stated.
“The Bishnoi gang makes use of alliances with different gangsters… to recruit troopers and set up assaults of their title,” the CBSA wrote.
The crime group “is leveraging Indo-Canadian avenue gangs, such because the Ruffians, and different unidentified teams to conduct extortions in Canada on their behalf,” it stated.
The report additionally reveals the gang’s suspected use of the business car business.
“It’s possible that the Bishnoi gang (and different gangs) have important ties into the business motorcar group, permitting the gang to maneuver associates and contraband, together with firearms, throughout a number of provinces inconspicuously,” it stated.
Since 2023, the Bishnoi gang has focused South Asian Canadians in B.C., Alberta and Ontario, populations, making exorbitant calls for for extortion funds and following up with threats, shootings and arsons.
Activity forces set as much as deal with the issue have made a number of arrests, and immigration officers have deported dozens of suspects, however they’ve made much less progress towards the leaders.
Who’re they?
Regardless of being imprisoned in India since 2015, Lawrence Bishnoi, seen right here in purple shirt, has overseen the enlargement of his crime community into Canada. (Photograph by Sant Arora/through Getty Pictures).
Balkaran Barar, who goes by Lawrence Bishnoi, is a former Indian scholar chief who used his place to run a criminal offense community. Regardless of being imprisoned in India since 2015, he has nonetheless expanded his operations into Canada, the U.S., Europe and the Center East. Interesting to youths by glamorizing the gangster way of life on social media, he makes use of contraband cell telephones to direct contract murders and extortions, kill his enemies and visitors in weapons and medicines. The RCMP has accused Bishnoi, who depicts himself as an Indian nationalist, of “performing on behalf of the Indian authorities.” As of July, he faces racketeering fees within the U.S. He has additionally been charged with ordering the assassination of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Nijjar, though Canadian authorities suspect India was in the end behind the killing.
Goldy Brar.
INTERPOL
Satinderjit Singh Brar, aka Goldy, is Bishnoi’s prime lieutenant. He got here to Canada to check in Kamloops, B.C., in 2017 however as a substitute helped type the gang’s North American franchise. He has been linked to the crime group’s most sensational murders: the 2022 killing of the favored Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala in India; and Nijjar’s slaying in Surrey, B.C. in 2023. He has now reportedly cut up with Bishnoi after a falling out. He claimed refugee standing in Canada however by no means confirmed up for his listening to and his whereabouts are unknown.
Rohit Godara.
CBSA
Rawataran Swami, aka Pawan Kumar or Rohit Godara, is a suspected prime lieutenant of the Bishnoi gang who manages operations for Goldy Brar, the CBSA wrote. He claimed duty for a 2024 capturing on the Vancouver Island dwelling of Punjabi musician A.P. Dhillon. He’s implicated in nearly three dozen felony circumstances and allegedly linked to a number of high-profile murders in India, the CBSA stated. Like Brar, he just lately broke with Lawrence Bishnoi and his whereabouts are unknown.
Harry Boxer.
CBSA
Hari Chand Jat, aka Harry Boxer, fled India in 2022 and “is believed to now be working the Bishnoi gang within the U.S.,” the CBSA wrote. He has been linked to extortion in Canada and two shootings at Kap’s Cafe, a Surrey, B.C., enterprise owned by comic Kapil Sharma. He claimed Sharma was focused as a result of he had invited Salman Khan to look on his Netflix present. Khan is a Bollywood actor whom Bishnoi has repeatedly threatened, apparently blaming him for capturing an antelope, an animal held in excessive regard by the Indian Bishnoi group.
Goldy Dhillon.
CBSA
Gurpreet Singh, aka Goldy Dhillon, is a “subcontractor” for Goldy Brar and the Bishnoi gang who recruits foot troopers to hold out extortion assaults in Canada, the CBSA stated. He might personal a Brampton, Ont., trucking firm, though that’s unconfirmed, the company added. He has “claimed duty through social media for a number of capturing incidents associated to extortions in Surrey, B.C. in 2025,” the CBSA added.
Aka Sipa, Sidhu was a Bishnoi affiliate behind quite a few extortion calls in Canada. An Edmonton police officer has testified that Sidhu was the “main particular person who would handle communications” for extortions, including the RCMP had recognized his involvement via voice matching expertise. He was murdered in Dubai in November 2025. Each Goldy Brar and Rohit Godara claimed duty following their cut up from the Bishnoi gang, accusing Sidhu of being a police informant and embezzling cash.
Anmol Bishnoi.
FBI
Lawrence Bishnoi’s youthful brother, he fled India in 2022 and took over the gang’s U.S. operations, the CBSA stated. FBI surveillance photographs present him associating with different Bishnoi members in California. One other gang member, Karamveer Singh, whom Lawrence assigned to take “care of his brother,” later crossed the border illegally into Canada and was detained whereas awaiting his deportation, in response to a Canadian decide. Anmol was arrested within the U.S. in 2024 and returned to India final November.
After arriving in Canada on a piece allow in 2023, Bandhumaan Sekhon allegedly joined the Goldy Dhillon gang, which is linked to Goldy Brar and the Bishnoi gang. Peel Regional Police arrested him in 2024, however he was launched on bail, minimize off his ankle monitor and fled to India, the place he was arrested final November. The CBSA intelligence report described him as a high-profile particular person of curiosity. “Shootings reminiscent of these at Kap’s Cafe are sometimes claimed by infamous gangsters like Goldy [Brar], Dhillon and Bishnoi. Nonetheless, the ‘groundwork’ is finished by native criminals like Sekhon who act as ‘franchisees’ or unbiased contractors for these gangs,” in response to the CBSA.
Noni Rana.
CBSA
The youthful brother of late gangster Kala Rana and a “shut affiliate of Lawrence Bishnoi,” he was allegedly serving to run the gang’s U.S. operation. He might have tried to cross the border into Canada however was caught. “Unconfirmed reviews point out that Rana was apprehended by U.S. regulation enforcement on the Niagara border after Anmol was deported from the U.S. to India on November 18, 2025,” the CBSA wrote.
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