City police gets Bishnoi’s custody in Arms Act case
To question him again in connection with Moosewala’s killing
The Delhi police, on Tuesday, obtained three days’ custody of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in connection with an old case and will question him again in connection with the killing of famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. Bishnoi’s name has also surfaced after Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead in Punjab.
According to the police, Bishnoi has been taken into three days’ police custody after questioning him in connection with a different case registered under the sections of Arms Act and other sections of assault on public servant where a criminal along with his two associates were arrested after a brief encounter with the police.
His arrest comes a day after a Delhi court refused to entertain a plea filed by alleged Bishnoi, the accused in Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala’s killing, seeking a direction to the
jail authorities not to give his custody to the Punjab police.
According to officials, after questioning him in Tihar Jail, where he was lodged in central jail no. 8, Bishnoi was produced before a Delhi court which granted three days of police custody to question Bishnoi in connection with the case wherein three criminals were arrested after a brief encounter with the special cell’s unit last month.
During interrogation, the arrested criminals had disclosed that the weapons recovered from the arrested criminals were supplied to them by Bishnoi, a senior police official said.
“Since Bishnoi has been taken into police custody, we will also be questioning him in connection with the killing of Moosewala in Punjab,” he added.
“On Tuesday, gangster Bishnoi was questioned for a few hours by the special cell unit and then was arrested in a different case. He was then taken to a Delhi court for his custody,” a jail official said.
According to the police, Bishnoi has been arrested in FIR no. 83/22 in which three prime sharpshooters of the dreaded ‘Gogi gang,’ namely Mukesh (32), Harvinder (29), and Shakti (22), were involved in different incidents of firing on rival gang members, for killing them and their family members, firing at the house of assistant superintendent of Tihar Jail, and killing a prime eyewitness of a murder case.
Three sophisticated pistols, 11 live cartridges, and one motor cycle were recovered from their possession, the police said.