 Panwar was born on 19 October 2002 to Ashok Panwar, a doctor at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur, and Nirmala Devi, a qualified nurse.Panwar took up shooting in 2014 at the age of 12 and initially used his elder sister Anjali's weapons at the Jangpura shooting range in Jaipur.In 2017, his father became worried by his ""PUBG" addiction" and enrolled him at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi where he trained under Deepak Kumar Dubey.