Meesho, Flipkart sell t-shirts with Lawrence Bishnoi's picture, face wrath on social media

E-commerce platform Meesho and Flipkart received flak on social media after a screengrab of the websites selling t-shirt with Lawrence Bishnoi's face went viral.

The post on Meesho was first shared by Alishan Jafri, a journalist by profession who shared screenshot of the t-shirts being sold on the online platform, on November 4.

"People are literally selling gangster merchandise on platforms like @Meesho_Official and Teeshopper. This is just one example of India's latest online radicalisation," he wrote on X.

The post since has 177.8K views and over 5K likes, and has received several comments of users bashing the website.

"Shame on Meesho and similar websites. Shame," wrote one user, others urged the Mumbai Police to take action.

However, some users asked for the link to the product showing their willingness to purchase it.

The product now remains out of stock.

Credit: Meesho Website

This comes at a time when Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been facing threats day-in and day-out with an option to either pay crores of money apologise to the Bishnoi community over the apparently over the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident.

All threats that Khan has been receiving are allegedly from members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. While Bishnoi himself is lodged in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati jail in cases including attempted murder and extortion, suspected members of his gang opened fire outside the actor's Bandra home in April. Weeks after that, Navi Mumbai Police claimed to have uncovered a plot by the Bishnoi gang to kill Khan while on his way to his farmhouse at Panvel near Mumbai.

Meanwhile, the Bishnoi gang also claimed responsibility for the killing of the NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique.

Baba Siddique (66) was shot dead by three gunmen near his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office in Mumbai's Bandra area on October 12.

Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's brother Anmol Bishnoi is allegedly said to be behind the murder of Baba Siddique.

(With PTI inputs)