New Delhi: The Punjab Police has sought a red-corner notice or an international arrest warrant against Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar who has claimed to be behind the murder of singer and Congress leader Sidhu Singh Moose Wala.
Police sources told news agency ANI that Brar was an active member of jailed outlaw Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang.
Brar, aka Satinder Singh, is wanted in India for multiple crimes. Just recently, a Faridpur court issued an open-ended, non-bailable arrest warrant against him for the murder of district Youth Congress president Gurlal Singh Pehalwan.
Top police sources have told ThePrint that all eight men arrested for the 29 May murder of Moose Wala were members of the Lawrence Bishnoi-Goldy Brar gang. The police suspect Bishnoi called the shots.
Days before the killing, the accused apparently put the 28-year-old singer’s Mansa residence on round-the-clock surveillance. Officers said the men regularly updated Brar about the singer’s movements via the instant-messaging app, Signal.
Meanwhile, Bishnoi has told police from Tihar Jail that Moose Wala’s was a revenge killing, but he himself did not orchestrate it.
It is suspected that Moose Wala was killed to avenge the death of Youth Akali Dal leader Vicky Middukheda.
The singer-politician was shot dead in Jawaharke village, Mansa two day after his security cover was withdrawn by the AAP government in Punjab. Postmortem showed 19 bullet injuries in the body.
Moose Wala had contested this year’s Punjab assembly elections on a Congress ticket from Mansa but was defeated by AAP candidate Vijay Singla.
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