New Delhi: Singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in Mansa district on Sunday after assailants shot at least 30 rounds of fire on his vehicle and his moving convoy. A high-level investigation has been initiated by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann into the shooting incident. 


Punjab Police on Sunday said Canada-based singer Goldy Brar and jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi were behind the killing of Sidhu Moose Wala in the Mansa district.


Punjab Director-General of Police VK Bhawra informed the media that Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang has claimed the responsibility for the murder citing it to be a retaliation to the killing of Youth Akali Dal leader Vicky Middukhera.


Moose Wala, 28, had joined Congress last year in December ahead of the Punjab assembly elections.


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Who Is Lawrence Bishnoi?  


Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang who claimed to have been involved in the Moose Wala's death is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail. There are several cases against Bishnoi spanning across the northern region including Delhi, Rajasthan, and Punjab. The gangster has been kept in the high-security ward number 8 of the jail, as per an India Today report.


The 29-year-old gangster from Punjab’s Ferozepur is an LLB graduate. Bishnoi's father was in Haryana Police and had joined the service as a constable in 1992. However, he left the job after five years in service to do farming.  


After Lawrence Bishnoi completed his LLB from Punjab University, he was drawn into illegal activities. Some of the early cases against him were lodged in Chandigarh. He was part of the student organisation of Punjab University where he came in contact with president Goldy in 2009. Bishnoi then got involved in university politics and started committing crimes. The gang is engaged in extorting money from the liquor mafia, Punjabi singers, and other influential people.


His gang members also include professional shooters, and the gang operates from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh, reported the publication. The report stated that the Bishnoi gang network is also spread across the globe.


In fact, one of his close aide Sandeep alias Kala Jathedi is also lodged in jail. One of his associates and friend Sampat Nehra had allegedly planned to kill Bollywood actor Salman Khan and was later arrested by the Haryana Special Task Force in Hyderabad in 2018, according to The Indian Express report.


Other key members include Kala Jathedi, Monty and Kala Rana. Rana, who is allegedly involved in 30 murders, was extradited from Thailand and later arrested in March. Jathedi, who is also alleged to be involved in 40 murders, was arrested along with his girlfriend Anuradha Chaudhari in July last year.