New Delhi: The Delhi police said gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, currently in its custody, was the mastermind behind singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder, and that a close associate of the main shooter involved in the brutal killing in Punjab’s Mansa had been arrested.
The police, however, did not divulge the details about the motive behind the killing of the popular singer and Congress leader and how Bishnoi conspired to execute the crime despite being lodged in the high-security Tihar Jail in the national capital.
Addressing a press conference, Special Commissioner of Police H S Dhaliwal said that they have identified five more people involved in the murder case. Dhaliwal said that Lawrence’s relative Sachin Bishnoi’s role in the killing has also emerged.
2 arrested from Gujarat
An official said that Pune police have arrested Santosh Jadhav, a sharp shooter, and his aide Navnath Suryavanshi from Mandavi tehsil at Bhuj in Gujarat. Jadhav was nabbed in a 2021 murder case registered at Manchar police station in Maharashtra’s Pune district, he said.
The official said Jadhav, who was on the run for a year, had shaved his head and changed his appearance to evade arrest. A Pune police team has also gone to Delhi to interrogate Bishnoi, who is in the Delhi Police custody. The names of Jadhav and Suryavanshi had cropped up in the Moosewala murder probe. Multiple police teams were searching from them.
The Pune police had also intensified their search and last week arrested Siddhesh Kamble alias Mahakal, accused of sheltering Jadhav after the 2021 murder case. The Mumbai Police had also grilled Mahakal in connection with a threat letter to scriptwriter Salim Khan and his actor-son Salman Khan. Police said as per the information, Mahakal had knowledge about the threat letter given to Salim Khan.
