Chandigarh: The Punjab Police has arrested one more person from Haryana in connection with the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, even as sources said eight sharp shooters have also been identified. Davinder alias Kala was nabbed on Sunday evening from Fatehabad, taking the number of people held in the case from Haryana so far to three, police said on Monday.
Two suspects involved in the killing had allegedly stayed with Davinder, police sources said. On June 3, two other suspects were nabbed by the Punjab Police from Fatehabad and their roles in the Moosewala’s murder were being probed. Meanwhile, eight sharp shooters are learnt to have been identified by the police in connection with the case and they hail from different states, including Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra, the sources said.
Besides, police have also rounded up some people and got several important leads in connection with the murder, they said. As many as 15 teams have been constituted by the police to arrest the culprits involved in the killing. As the investigation has accelerated, sources said that several police personnel have started to get life threats especially on phone calls from foreign numbers. The police, sources added, are being forced to abort the investigation immediately. The threatening calls, they said, are said to be from mostly Canada.
Two days after the killing of Moosewala in Mansa district, the Punjab Police had on May 31 made the first arrest in this case. Manpreet Singh, who was arrested from Uttarakhand, was accused of providing logistic support to the assailants. Police in Rajasthan's Dholpur have also arrested two miscreants in the case. During the police interrogation, the miscreants have made a big disclosure about gangster Amit Dagar. At the same time, Punjab Police also reached Dholpur on Monday to interrogate both the miscreants.
Meanwhile, Lawrence Bishnoi's lawyer Bina Sukaria said on Monday that no one can be proved guilty on the basis of Facebook post. He added that Lawrence is lodged in Tihar Jail and there was no way he could have plotted the murder from there. Amid this, politicians cutting across parties continued to reach Moosewala’s native village in Mansa to meet the singer’s family to express their condolences. “There cannot be bigger pain than a father having to see his young son dying like this. Everyone wants justice in this incident," senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who met the family on Monday, said. While interacting with reporters, he expressed concern over the alleged deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab.