POLICE TEAMS FROM ACROSS STATE LINE UP TO GET BISHNOI’S CUSTODY

As Lawrence Bishnoi landed back at the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) office in Kharar after the Amritsar police got his eight-day remand on Tuesday, police teams from other districts are also lining up to take the custody of the gangster, who is said to be the “main conspirator” in Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder case.

While the official line is that the gangster is to be quizzed in other criminal cases lodged against him in Punjab, insiders say the special investigation team (SIT) probing Moose Wala’s murder want to delay his judicial custody till all the suspects get arrested.

Even a month after the murder, which took place at Mansa on May 29, the SIT has failed to arrest any shooter or recover the weapons. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police still have the custody of the two shooters arrested so far, and the SIT is waiting to grill them along with Bishnoi. The remaining four shooters are still evading arrest.

The Moga police are also already on standby to arrest him in an attempt to murder case, confirmed senior superintendent of police Gulneet Singh Khurana. “We will bring him on production warrants for interrogation when his police remand in other cases ends,” he said. Police claim Bishnoi took a contract to kill the brother of deputy mayor Ashok Dhamija. The Faridkot police have also initiated process to bring Bishnoi for interrogation in the murder of district Youth Congress president Gurlal Pehlwan, who was shot dead in February last year.

The Muktsar police are also looking to interrogate Bishnoi in four cases, including the murders of gangsters Ranjit Rana, alias Rana Sidhu, and Manpreet Manna, it is learnt. Bishnoi was brought on transit remand from Delhi on June 15.