Chandigarh: Days after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann claimed that Goldy Brar was detained in California, a purported interview of the gangster surfaced online on Monday wherein he claimed that he was not held and nor was he in the US.
Mann on December 2 had confirmed in Ahmedabad that Brar - the alleged mastermind behind the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala - had been detained by the police in California and that he would "definitely be brought to India". He will be in the custody of the Punjab Police "very soon", Mann had told reporters.
However, Brar in a purported interview given to a journalist on YouTube denied these claims. The authenticity of the interview could not be ascertained. In the purported interview, the person calling himself Goldy Brar claimed that he had not been detained and also he was not in the US. In the audio clip of the interview, he could be heard contradicting Mann's claims about his detention.
Brar was the alleged mastermind behind the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala in May this year.
Mann has been under fire from the opposition parties over his claim of the detention of Brar. Punjab Police had got a red-corner notice issued against the gangster through the Union home ministry. The CM claimed there was evidence Goldy had been in contact with Pakistani agencies. Goldy, whose roots are in Punjab’s Muktsar, moved to Canada on a student visa in 2017 and built a life in crime from there. He apparently shifted base to the US after Moose Wala’s murder near his native village in Punjab’s Mansa.
