New Delhi/Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Tuesday arrested two active members of Lawrence Bishnoi's gang who were involved in singer Sidhu Moosewala's assassination and are allegedly working for Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar. Punjab Police has also filed a petition in Delhi's Patiala House Court seeking transit remand of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Bishnoi was taken to Patiala House Court in connection with the Arms Act by Delhi Police on Tuesday.
Gagandeep Singh alias Gaagi and Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi were arrested along with arms and ammunition in Mohali while they were on their way to deliver a consignment of weapons, Mohali's Senior Superintendent of Police, Vivek Sheel Soni said on Tuesday. Both are residents of Kingra, Dabbwali in Sirsa district of Haryana.
The SSP said that two 32 calibre pistols were seized from them along with eight live cartridges and an SUV bearing a Haryana registration number. A case under relevant provisions of the law including the Arms Act has been registered against them at Mohali. Soni said the two were in regular touch with Godly Brar through gangster Manpreet Singh alias Manna, who allegedly provided a car to the assailants in Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala's murder case and was recently arrested.
Both the accused were working on the directions of Goldy Brar and indulged in illegal weapons smuggling from border areas of Punjab and Rajasthan, he said in an official statement. Soni said that acting on a tip-off, an operation was launched by the Mohali police along with a team of Anti-Gangster Task Force following which the arrests were made. Further investigation is on, he said. (Agency inputs)
