Chandigarh 10th Sep : In an unprecedented development, Punjab Police in a joint operation with central agencies and Delhi Police on Saturday arrested sharpshooter Deepak Mundi from West Bengal-Nepal border over his alleged involvement in the sensational murder of famous Punjabi musician Sidhu Moosewala on May 29 the 29th of May, according to the Director of the General of Police, Gaurav Yadav.Mundi Mundi, the sixth and last absconding sharpshooter who was involved in the murder was detained together with his two accomplices -Rajinder and Kapil Pandit Kapil Pandit and Rajinder – by the Anti-Gangster Task Force of Punjab Police (AGTF) located near the Nepal border in West Bengal following an intelligence-based operation the DGP said.
Mundi was the shooter in Bolero’s module, and Kapil Pandit and Rajinder were the logistical backers including hideouts and weapons Yadav explained.
In the past, sharpshooters Priyavrat Fauji, Kashish and Ankit Sersa were seized by the special cell of Delhi Police, while Manpreet Manu and Jagrup Singh Roopa were killed by the Punjab Police.
Manu and Roopa who are believed to be part of the Jaggu Bhagwanpuria gang which has been accused of providing sharpshooters for Lawrence Bishnoi for Moosewala’s killing and were killed in an incident near the border between Pakistan and India in Amritsar district on the 20th of July.
According to police that both gangsters took refuge in an abandoned house in Bhakna village, which is located about 14 kilometers from the border, at the time that the police killed them.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, also called Sidhu Moosewala, was shot dead in Punjab’s Mansa district on the 29th of May.
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