2 members of Bhagwanpuria-Bishnoi gang arrested; were involved in Moosewala killing

The DGP said that while Manpreet was arrested from Amritsar Rural, Mandeep was nabbed from Khakh village in Verowaal of Tarn Taran district.

“Both the gangsters were wanted by the Punjab Police for the past few years in various cases of murder, dacoity, extortion, carjacking, drugs and arms trafficking,” the DGP added.

Police have also recovered four sophisticated weapons, including one .30 caliber Chinese pistol, one .45 caliber pistol Taurus USA, one .357 caliber magnum revolver, and one .32 caliber pistol along with 36 live cartridges from them.

The arrests were made just five days after the AGTF arrested the sixth and last shooter identified as Deepak Mundi in the Moosewala murder case along with his two aides from Indo-Nepal Border in West Bengal, while they were attempting to escape to Bhutan via Nepal and Thailand. The same gang had also plotted to kill Bollywood actor Salman Khan.

“These two shooters were initially assigned the task to kill Moosewala. In fact, they along with gangsters Kapil Pandit and Sachin Thapan conducted reconnaissance at Moosewala village twice or thrice in February 2022, besides, arranging police uniforms for impersonation. However, they failed to accomplish the task despite repeated attempts,” the DGP said, adding that, the probe has also revealed that Goldy Brar and Bishnoi had sent two separate teams to kill Moosewala, for which they had started planning a long time ago.

The DGP added that “later, Satvir Singh, who has already been arrested, brought Mandeep and Manpreet to Bathinda in his Fortuner car on May 20, 2022, and introduced them to Manu and Priyavart Fauji, the two members of the second team tasked to kill Moosewala. They (Manpreet and Mandeep) were in close contact with
Goldy Brar while they stayed in Bathinda.”

He added that with the arrest of these two gangsters, the police has also got a major lead in the Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) terror attack at Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali, as both had accompanied gangsters Deepak Jhajjar and Devayanshu during the murder of rival gangster Rana Kandowalia in 2021. Deepak Jhajjar and Devayanshu are the key accused in the RPG attack case.

earlier, in an 1,850-page charge sheet filed in a Mansa court last month, police said gangster Goldy Brar was the mastermind and had coordinated with Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, Lawrence Bishnoi and others to execute the killing of Sidhu Moosewala.