Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in Delhi Police’s Special Cell custody, has revealed that his gang’s members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, killed 28-year-old Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, alias Sidhu Moose Wala.
Sources said they suspect the accused involved in Moose Wala’s murder had fled to Nepal and they are hiding there. A special cell team has gone to Nepal to trace the suspects. According to sources, Bishnoi has been very uncooperative during interrogation and has not disclosed the names of his gang members who were the real conspirators in the killing.
“He has alleged that Moose Wala was involved in the killing of Akali Dal youth leader Vikramjit Singh, alias Vicky Middukhera, on August 7 last year which led to a rivalry between him and the Punjabi singer,” said the sources.
“Bishnoi has been very uncooperative so far. But during interrogation, he accepted that he had a rivalry with Moose Wala and claimed that his gang members killed the singer,” said sources. “He has revealed that Goldy Brar was one of the gang members who hatched the conspiracy to kill Moose Wala, but he has not yet disclosed the names of other associates who were the real executioners of the plot,” a police official said.
Bishnoi, who is facing nearly 60 cases, was lodged in Central Jail number eight of Tihar.
The singer-politician was shot dead by some unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29, a day after the Punjab Government curtailed his security cover.
The Delhi Police Special Cell, which is probing the matter, got the custody of Bishnoi for three days after arresting him from Tihar in a case registered under the Arms Act, officials added.
Gangster Kala Jathedi and his aide Kala Rana, who were in police custody in a different case, were also questioned in connection with the killing of Moose Wala. According to officials, after questioning Bishnoi in Tihar prison, he was produced at the Patiala House court and was remanded in three-day police custody for questioning in connection with the case where three criminals were arrested after a brief encounter with the Special Cell’s unit last month.
During interrogation, the arrested criminals had disclosed that the weapons recovered from them were supplied by Bishnoi, a senior police official said. The development came a day after a Delhi court refused to entertain a plea filed by Bishnoi seeking a direction to the jail authorities not to give his custody to Punjab Police, which suspects that he had plotted the singer’s killing.
Bishnoi has moved the Delhi High Court under the apprehension of a fake encounter by the Punjab Police.
The Punjab Police had earlier said Moose Wala’s killing seemed to be the result of an inter-gang rivalry and the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was involved in it.