A trial court in Punjab on Wednesday morning remanded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, accused of killing Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, to police custody till June 22.
Bishnoi, who was taken from New Delhi after obtaining a transit remand from Patiala House court, appeared at roughly 4 a.m. in a Mansa court in Punjab amid high-level security following his medical examination.
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He was taken to the Crime Investigating Agency (CIA) headquarters in Mohali, close here, for interrogation after getting the police remand.
The Patiala House Court in Delhi had allowed Punjab Police to send Bishnoi to Mansa court the day before.
He has been identified as the brains behind the plot to assassinate Moosewala by the police.
Some of the suspects detained by Punjab Police have identified Bishnoi as the prime perpetrator who hired them to carry out the murders.
On June 14, police nabbed two members of the Lawrance Bishnoi gang and Canada-based mobster Goldy Brar in a major breakthrough.
The two accused, Gagandeep Singh alias Gaagi and Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi, are residents of Dabbwali in Haryana’s Sirsa district, according to Senior Superintendent of Police (Mohali) Vivek Sheel Soni.
He claimed the pair communicated with Godly Brar on a regular basis through criminal Manpreet Singh alias Manna, who allegedly gave assailants a Toyota Corolla car in exchange for killing Moosewala.
Manpreet Singh was recently arrested in the Moosewala murder case.
Both of the apprehended suspects were acting on Brar’s orders and were involved in illegal weapons smuggling from the Punjab-Rajasthan border area, which they then supplied to the shooters.
(with inputs from IANS)
