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Moosewala murder: Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi remanded to seven-day police custody

A case under relevant provisions of the law including Arms Act has been registered

INDIA-MUSIC-OBITUARY People pay tribute to Sidhu Moosewala in Amritsar | AFP

Punjab Police brought gangster Lawrence Bishnoi under heavy security to the state from Delhi in the early hours of Wednesday to question him in the singer Sidhu Moosewala murder case. Bishnoi was produced before a court in Mansa district which remanded him to seven-day police custody. A Delhi court on Tuesday granted Punjab Police the transit remand of Bishnoi to take him to Punjab in the case related to the singer and Congress leader Moosewala's murder. The Delhi court had passed the order as Punjab Police produced Bishnoi before it after formally arresting him in the case.

Two active members of the Bishnoi gang were working on the directions of Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar. Gagandeep Singh alias Gaagi and Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi were arrested along with arms and ammunition in Mohali while they were on their way to deliver a consignment of weapons, Mohali's Senior Superintendent of Police, Vivek Sheel Soni said on Tuesday. Both are residents of Kingra, Dabbwali in Sirsa district of Haryana. The SSP said that two 32 calibre pistols were seized from them along with eight live cartridges and an SUV bearing a Haryana registration number.

A case under relevant provisions of the law including the Arms Act has been registered against them at Mohali.

Soni said the two were in regular touch with Godly Brar through gangster Manpreet Singh alias Manna, who allegedly provided a car to the assailants in Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala murder case and was recently arrested. Both the accused were working on the directions of Goldy Brar and indulged in illegal weapons smuggling from border areas of Punjab and Rajasthan, he said in an official statement.

Soni said that acting on a tip-off, an operation was launched by the Mohali police along with a team of Anti-Gangster Task Force following which the arrests were made.

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