Sidhu Moosewala Murder; 2 detained in Kenya and Azerbaijan

The MEA has reported 2 accused in the Sidhu Moosewala Murder detained in Kenya and Azerbaijan. Singer Moosewala was gunned down by six-shooters on a highway at Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29, when he was travelling in his vehicle with two associates.

Reports have said the external affairs ministry has been working with Punjab Police regarding the extradition of the two suspects detained abroad. As per the information detained men, have been named by the Punjab Police as Sachin Thapan, who was held in Azerbaijan, and Anmol Bishnoi, who was held in Kenya. Both fled India on fake passports a month before the murder was committed on May 29.

The two are also named as co-accused in the special investigation team’s 1,850-page charge sheet filed in the court of a chief judicial magistrate in Mansa on August 26. Sachin Thapan and Anmol Bishnoi, who is gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother, are among the four accused named in the SIT charge sheet who were abroad and still missing. The other two are Lipin Nehra and Satwinder Singh alias Goldy Brar, the mastermind of the singer’s killing.