Moose Wala killers got arms an hour before attack: Police
NEW DELHI: Arms and ammunitions used in the murder of Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala were delivered just an hour before the incident on May 29 by some unknown motorcycle-borne people, Priyavrat Fauji, one of the six shooters involved in the killing, told the Delhi Police special cell, senior officers said on Tuesday.
Fauji and another shooter Kuldeep alias Kashish were arrested from Baroi village in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Sunday, officers said, adding that Keshav Kumar, a facilitator who received the shooters, was also arrested.
The interrogation of Fauji and Kashish is on, said a senior officer of the special cell. The accused also said that the weapons used in the murder were supplied from across the border, the officer said requesting anonymity. “Of the six shooters involved in the murder, four criminals — Ankit Sirsa, Deepak, Jagroop Roopa and Manpreet Mannu — are still at large. While Sirsa and Deepak were accompanying Fauji and Kashish in the Bolero that intercepted Moose Wala’s vehicle from the back, Roopa and Mannu attacked the singer’s vehicles from the front in Toyota Corolla,” the officer told HT. “We have got certain possible locations of Sirsa and Deepak who were with the arrested shooters two-three days before their arrest…”
Fauji and Kashish are in the custody of special cell till July 4.
“The communication with the facilitators, supplier of arms and vehicles, recipients and the backup conspirators was so discreet that even the killer didn’t know about others,” the officer said.
BATHINDA: A day after Punjab prison minister Harjot Bains’ intervention, the district police on Tuesday registered a case against gangster Saraj Sandhu, alias Mintoo, for allegedly running an extortion and drug trafficking racket from the high-security Bathinda prison.
Mintoo, who is a co-accused in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, is also suspected to have access to his Instagram account while being behind the bars.
According to the FIR lodged on the complaint of deputy jail superintendent Bhupinder Singh at the Cantonment police station, Mintoo, who is undergoing trial in another murder case, is suspected to have been abusing the prison inmate calling system (PICS) “to contact his accomplices for the illegal business of narcotics and extortion”.
In Punjab, prisoners are allowed to use PICS to make calls of 15-minute duration daily on any of the 10 pre-approved phone numbers.
The FIR registered under Section 384 (extortion) of the IPC besides under the NDPS Act and Prison Act further stated that Mintoo may also have uploaded content online with the help of his accomplices. On Sunday, a music story surfaced on Mintoo’s purported Instagram page.