Punjab police get remand of Bishnoi in Moosewala case
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed one-day transit remand of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to Punjab police for his production in a Mansa court in connection to the murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was gunned down on May 29.
Bishnoi’s counsel contended that there was a threat to his client’s life and that he may be killed in a fake encounter.
The judge directed Punjab police to take all measures for the safety and security of Bishnoi during transit and till his court production even as advocate general for Punjab Anmol Rattan Sidhu said a team of armed personnel was constituted for this purpose.
Bishnoi is accused of being the key conspirator in the singer’s murder. Delhi police have interrogated him for 10 days following which he was produced in the court on Tuesday. In its application, Punjab police stated that nine accused have been arrested in the case and 11 people were yet to be arrested. Metropolitan magistrate Umesh Kumar allowed Punjab police’s application for one-day transit remand to produce the gangster before a Mansa court for kick-starting the trial for the singer’s murder.
“Considering the totality of the circumstances and also considering the seriousness of the offences and gravity of allegations against the accused Lawrence Bishnoi qua the murder of singer Subhdeep Singh @ Sidhu Moosewala, the application seeking transit remand for one day is allowed till June 15 with direction to the IO to produce the accused before the concerned court of CJM, Mansa on June 15,” the judge said in a 4-page order.
The court also ordered Punjab police to file a compliance report before the duty magistrate in Patiala House court just after the production in Mansa court. The chief judicial magistrate, Mansa, had issued an arrest warrant against Bishnoi on June 13 in the singer’s murder case.
Punjab police also said that a team of 54 officials, including 38 armed police personnel, was constituted to check the security of the accused. Police said it was also pertinent to mention that all the arrested accused were allegedly closely associated with Bishnoi and his associates, and they have been involved together in multiple FIRS.
Moosewala was shot dead in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday, just a day after his security was downgraded by the state government. The Punjab police have named gangsters Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi in Moosewala’s murder.