A crowd gathered outside Sidhu Moosewala's residence to pay their respects. (Express Photo)Sidhu Moosewala cremation Live Updates: The last rites of Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala was performed at his native village Moosa in Mansa district on Tuesday with huge crowds gathering at the site. He was shot dead on May 29.
Earlier, the police resorted to lathicharging outside Moosewala’s residence to disperse the crowd.
Security was stengthened in the area as fans shouted slogans against the Punjab government and the police, demanding death for his murderers. The body of Sidhu Moosewala, 27, was brought from the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Mansa to his home at 8.45 am today. Lawrence Bishnoi, lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, and Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar have claimed responsibility for the murder.
Meanwhile, the post-mortem report of Moosewala showed he received 24 bullets, mostly on his chest and abdomen. He was also hit on his head and thighs when he was attacked on Sunday evening outside the Jawahar Ke village, around 10 kilometres from his home.
Popular singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead by assailants on Sunday. (File)
Manpreet Singh Bhau was produced before a Mansa court and sent to police custody for five days. Manpreet Singh Bhau hails from the Dhapyi village in Faridkot. He is the cousin of Manpreet Singh Manna, who was locked up in Ferozpur jail and was brought on remand on Monday by the Mansa Police in connection with the Sidhu Moosewala murder case. Manna is also a gangster and is in judicial custody for killing gangster Kulbir Naruana.
Two days after famous Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead, Punjab police on Tuesday made the first arrest and he was sent to police custody for 5 days.
“I am not going anywhere. I will live here and I will die here”: This is a line that Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, who liked being known as Sidhu Moose Wala, would repeat at every rally and every roadside meeting while campaigning for the Punjab Assembly elections held in February this year.
Moosewala, 27, was the only child of his parents. He was shot dead near Mansa, three days after his security was downgraded.
Thousands of fans from different states turned up Tuesday to pay their respects to Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead by unidentified attackers Sunday evening, in the Moosa village of Punjab’s Mansa district as his parents prepared him for his last journey.
All roads leading to Moosa were blocked and people walked in the scorching heat to get the last glimpse of Sidhu Moosewala, 27, as the police stepped up security in the area. People had been waiting for hours as Moosewala’s family made arrangements for water and food for his fans. The police even lathi-charged the fans earlier in the day to control the growing crowd outside the singer’s house.
Moosewala's father Balkaur Singh pays his tributes to his son by taking off his turban.
The last rites of Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moosewala performed at his native village Moosa in Mansa district. He was shot dead on May 29th.
A huge crowd joins the funeral procession of singer Sidhu Moose Wala in Punjab's Mansa.
Sidhu Moosewala's parents bid goodbye to the late singer at his residence in Mansa.
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“I might have performed in front of 2-4 lakh people on big stages.. but my legs are shaking as I stand here and speak in front of my teachers,” Moosewala had said as he addressed students at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College (GNDEC) in Ludhiana last year. Read more
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In his lyrics, he repeatedly asked for definitions of religion, sanctity, justice, and of what constituted civilised behaviour anyway. But while living this self-image of a young man grappling with tough societal questions – he cited Black American rapper Tupac Shakur as an inspiration – Sidhu was only underlining the contradiction that he was. Read more
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The police on Tuesday resorted to lathicharging fans outside the residence of Sidhu Moosewala’s residence at the Moosa village in Punjab’s Mansa to disperse the crowd. The late singer will be cremated at his agricultural field, and fans have been asked to pay their respects at the site.
Sidhu Moosewala will be cremated in his agricultural field instead of the village cremation ground.
Fans gathered outside his house to pay their respects have been asked to gather at the place of cremation instead.
A huge crowd Tuesday gathered at the Moosa village in Mansa district of Punjab for the cremation of Shubdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala. The Punjab Police beefed up security in the area as fans shouted slogans against the Punjab government and the police, demanding death for his murderers.
Punjab Congress President Amrinder Raja Warring and working president Bharat Bhushan Ashu arrived with family to pay their last respects to Sidhu Moosewala.
Grieving women wait to pay their respects to Sidhu Moosewala in Punjab's Mansa.
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The body of Sidhu Moosewala arrived at his home outside the Moosa village in Punjab's Mansa district and will be cremated later on Monday. (Express Photos)
A huge crowd of angry fans turned up in front of the house of Sidhu Moosewala Tuesday in his ancestral village of Musse in Punjab’s Mansa district ahead of his cremation, which will be held later in the day.
After the body of Sidhu Moosewala was brought from the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Mansa to his home, his fans shouted slogans against the Punjab government and the police, demanding death for his murderers. Lawrence Bishnoi, lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, and Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar have claimed responsibility for the murder. Read more
After the body of Sidhu Moosewala was brought from the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Mansa to his home, his fans shouted slogans against the Punjab government and the police, demanding death for his murderers.