41 Facts About Bindy Johal

Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal was an Indo-Canadian gangster from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

On 20 December 1998, Johal was fatally shot in the back of the head at a crowded nightclub in Vancouver.

Bindy Johal was born in 1971 in Punjab, India to a Jatt Sikh family of the Bindy Johal clan.

Bindy Johal's family immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia with his parents at the age of four.

Bindy Johal's parents separated and he was raised by his mother.

Bindy Johal was increasingly temperamental, resented discipline, and had a lack of respect and remorse for others.

Bindy Johal tried to justify his behaviour at his trial in a defence that the journalist Jerry Langton wrote "smacked of cold-blooded cynicism" by saying that as an Indo-Canadian that he was the victim of a racist society and he was only just lashing out against society by beating up his vice-principal so severely that he had to go to the hospital emergency room to save his life.

Bindy Johal smashed in the window of a car using a baseball bat and was convicted of possession of a dangerous weapon.

Bindy Johal enrolled in college, but dropped out after his first semester and thus began his criminal career.

Bindy Johal joined a once Hispanic gang called Los Diablos.

Bindy Johal built a reputation as a hit-man working for Jimmy and Ron Dosanjh, both of whom he would later betray and have killed.

Bindy Johal didn't keep close friends and was extremely callous to his associates.

Bindy Johal actually met Bal Buttar, one of his close associates, in prison when he was in his twenties.

Bindy Johal was responsible in the murders of gangster brothers Ron Dosanjh and Jimmy Dosanjh.

Bindy Johal knew that Jimmy Dosanjh had taken out a contract to kill him for over C$230,000, according to Crown prosecutors.

The hitman whom Jimmy Dosanjh hired to kill Bindy Johal instead approached him and made a deal for more money to kill Dosanjh.

Bindy Johal was accepted into the Punjabi Mafia in the early 1990s most likely through Ranjit Cheema or Ron Dosanjh.

However, Buttar was shocked when Bindy Johal said he wanted his own cousin killed.

Bindy Johal believed Kandola was the one responsible for his younger brother's death.

Bindy Johal is suspected to be the one behind Bindy's death.

Bindy Johal was charged with aggravated assault for beating two men in a bar with a broken beer bottle in 1997.

Bindy Johal was affiliated to the Buttar brothers who were well known across the Lower Mainland for their brutal gangland slayings.

Bindy Johal's chosen instrument was a hit squad which Bindy Johal named "The Elite" consisting of five Indo-Canadian hit men.

Bindy Johal had a "legendary" bad temper, known for his frequent outbursts of violent rage, which led him to be convicted in 1997 of attacking two men in a bar fight with a broken beer bottle.

Bindy Johal had convictions for obstruction of justice, possession of dangerous weapons, and aggravated assault.

Bindy Johal phoned Chan's older brother, Raymond, to tell him that if he wanted to see his brother alive again, to give him 5 kilograms of cocaine in exchange for his brothers' life.

Bindy Johal negotiated Chan's release with his brother to be in exchange for $500,000 paid by the Lotus triads to the Punjabi Mafia faction of Bindy Johal.

Bindy Johal made no effort to disguise the fact that he was a gangster, and would threaten the lives of rivals in interviews with television crews.

Bindy Johal became a folk hero in the Lower Mainland, being admired for his success as a gangster, and many of the young men who joined organized crime admitted that it was Bindy Johal's example that inspired them to turn to crime.

Why do you think Bindy Johal was a hero to many young Indo-Canadians.

Bindy Johal's legend had spread wide in the past few years among Indians not only here but in Toronto and Montreal, New York and San Francisco.

Dheil was an associate of the Dosanjh brothers, and Bindy Johal wanted to see all of the associates of the Dosanjh brothers killed least they try to avenge them.

Khun Khun had attended high school alongside Bindy Johal, and considered him a friend.

On 1 July 1998, Bindy Johal had "The Elite" kill Vinuse News MacKenzie.

On 19 September 1998, a member of the gang, Derek Chand Shankar, insulted Bindy Johal, calling him an "idiot" and a "baby" after Bindy Johal stated he was felt too tired to go to a nightclub.

Later the same night, Bindy Johal showed up at the nightclub and asked Buttar where Shankar was.

Bindy Johal then asked Buttar if he wanted to go to a nightclub with him.

In 2004, before he died, Bal Buttar told a reporter that he ordered the assassination of Bindy Johal, fearing that if he didn't do it, Bindy Johal would have had him murdered.

Bindy Johal was identified as one of the individuals in the Punjabi Canadian community who sought criminal activity as a means of fast success and money, a glamourized lifestyle and to counter racial discrimination and abuse with counter-violence:.

Kash Heed, commanding officer of the 3rd Police District in Vancouver, stated that it was really disappointing that someone as bright and intelligent as Bindy Johal would turn to a life of crime.

Bindy Johal added that young people who want to emulate gangsters like Bindy see the benefits of being a criminal, but do not see the danger of putting their lives at risk.