Punjab police on Tuesday arrested a man in connection with the brutal murder of singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala.
The accused, Manpreet Singh Bhau, aged 27, is a resident of Dhapyi village in the Faridkot district. Manpreet is accused of providing vehicles to the killers involved in Moosewala’s murder. According to police, Manpreet was not one of the killers who indiscriminately shot Moosewala in his car and killed him on the spot.

Manpreet is the cousin of another gangster Manpreet Singh Manna, a prisoner in Ferozepur jail and was brought to Mansa on a production warrant for questioning in the Moosewala murder case on Monday. Manna is in jail for killing another gangster, Kulbir Naruana.

A white Toyota Corola owned by Manpreet Manna has been handed over to the attackers, police said. CCTV footage on social media showed a white car behind Moosewala’s car in the village of Jawaharke on Sunday evening. The occupants of the vehicle first fired at Moosewala’s vehicle. Later another group of assassins, a Mahindra Bolero car, joined the first group and started firing indiscriminately; Moosewala was killed on the spot.

There are nine cases against Manpreet in Faridkot, Ropar and Muktsar under the Arms Act and nine cases of kidnapping and murder. On Monday, he was among six people arrested from Dehradun while returning from Hemkund Sahib, a Sikh temple in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. They were later brought to Punjab for questioning in the Moosewala murder case.

Manpreet was produced in Mansa court, where he was remanded in police custody for five days. Police are expecting more information from Manpreet about the attackers. Moosewala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district a day after the state government withdrew his security cover.

State police called the incident an inter-gang conflict and said the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was behind the killings. Goldy Brar, a Canadian-based gangster who is a member of the Bishnoi gang, has claimed responsibility for the killings.

According to police, Moosewala’s assassination appears to have been retaliation for last year’s assassination of young Akali leader Vicky Middukhera. Moosewala’s manager Shagunpreet was named in the Midukhera murder case. However, police said that Shagunpreet had fled to Australia.

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The three shooters, identified as Sunny, Anil Lath and Bhalu, were arrested by a special cell of Delhi Police in connection with the murder of Haryana resident Vicky Midukhera and Shagunpreet was also named as an accused in the FIR.