Chandigarh, Dec. 3 -- It was a friendship that started in college. Dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was a student at DAV College, Chandigarh, when he met Goldy Brar. Fondly addressing each other as "bhai" (brother), they navigated student politics together before eventually venturing into the world of crime, orchestrating extortions, shootouts and targeted killings, including the high-profile murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala. But their friendship has now given way to a full-blown gang war, claiming at least three lives of their close associates in the past three months. The latest casualty - Inderpreet Singh alias Parry, who was chased and shot down in Chandigarh's Sector 26 on Monday night.

Police officials in the know of the ...