Delhi Police on Wednesday stated that jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was the mastermind behind the killing of Punjabi singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot lifeless on May 20.
Issuing an official assertion, the police additionally stated it arrested Siddhesh Hiraman Kamle, alias Mahakaal, who’s an in depth affiliate of the primary shooter concerned in Moosewala’s homicide.
“Lawrence Bishnoi is mastermind behind the killing…Maharashtra Police has been given one Mahakaal’s 14-day police custody remand. He is a close associate of one of the shooters, but he’s not involved in the killing,” stated HGS Dhaliwal, Special CP, Delhi Police.
“Maharashtra Police has been given Mahakaal alias Siddhesh Hiraman Kamble’s 14-day police custody remand. He is a close associate of one of the shooters, but he’s not involved in the killing,” he added.
Lawrence Bishnoi is lodged in Tihar Jail in reference to a case lodged underneath the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA). Last week, he was remanded in three-day custody of the Delhi Police Special Cell and was interrogated in reference to the case, throughout which he admitted to his gang’s involvement within the homicide.
Dhaliwal stated that a minimum of 5 shooters are concerned in Moosewala’s killing and might be arrested quickly.
Bishnoi’s involvement got here underneath police scanner after Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar — an in depth aide of Bishnoi — claimed accountability for the singer’s killing. The Punjab Police had earlier stated that the homicide was a results of inter-gang rivalry. This homicide was in retaliation of youth Akali chief Vicky Middukhera’s killing that happened final yr.
Last week, Lawrence Bishnoi’s nephew Sachin Bishnoi took accountability of killing the singer-politician, calling it an act of ‘revenge’.
Making a digital name to News18 India, Sachin Bishnoi, who claims to be the nephew of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, stated that “he killed Sidhu with his own hands”. Sachin claimed that he killed Moosewala because the singer had gotten their ‘brother Vicky Middukhera’ killed. The Youth Akali Dal chief, aged 33, was shot lifeless in Mohali in August 2021.
On May 29, Moosewala was shot lifeless in broad daylight when driving his SUV alongside together with his cousin and a buddy in his native Moosa village of Mansa district. The incident got here a day after the singer’s safety cowl was withdrawn by the Punjab authorities together with 423 others.
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