AP Dhillon's Canada Home Attacker Claims Bishnoi Gang Threatened His Family

AP Dhillon's Canada house was attacked in 2024 by Lawrence Bishnoi's gang.

Abjeet Singh Kingra, an Indian national convicted of carrying out an extortion attack at the Victoria-area home of Punjabi singer AP Dhillon, told Canada Immigration that he would be killed if he were sent back to India. In his testimony, Kingra said when he carried out the attack, he did not understand that he was working for the Bishnoi gang. "I got the news that this gang was threatening my family in India, and they said if I went back they would kill me," Kingra said, insisting that he was not a Bishnoi gang member. "As I'm not a member of their gang — they're thinking that I'm helping the police here as I was the first one that was arrested," Kingra said.

Kingra's revelation came during an admissibility hearing aimed at determining if he should be deported to India because of organized criminality. The 26-year-old was sentenced to six years for arson and firearms offences last fall for his role in the incident that saw Kingra and a co-accused set vehicles ablaze and fire 14 shots from a handgun into the front of Dhillon's home.

'I was surprised, I was on every news channel'

Kingra said he was surprised when he saw the video he filmed was on every news channel. "Even I was surprised that it was everywhere on the news channel in the morning," he said. "If I would have known earlier that Bishnoi gang is involved in it and it would have been that serious — extortion and all that — I would have [refused] at that point." "My family was already getting threatened, and now it would be 100 per cent for them because the things will be out in the media," Kingra said. "And if I went to India — definitely — they would kill me."

Kingra said he came to Canada in 2018 on a student visa. As he was doing various odd jobs, he met one Vikram Sharma, a co-accused in the AP Dhillon house arson case. Kingra said Sharma offered him $4000 to join him for the attack and told him AP Dhillon's house would be empty. But it was not. Though Dhillon was not home, his roommate narrowly missed injury, Kingra said Sharma gave him the money in cash and never told him who they did it for.