Police teams from four-five States are jointly working in the murder case of rapper and Congress leader Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known as Sidhu Moosewala, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil said on Sunday.
“I cannot publicly comment on the ongoing inquiry because it is a sensitive issue. The Maharashtra Police and the State Anti-Terrorism Squad are monitoring it,” said Mr. Walse-Patil.
On June 7, the Pune Rural Police arrested Siddhesh Kamble known by his aliases ‘Mahakal’ and ‘Saurabh’, who is one of the eight suspects named by the Punjab Police in the Moosewala killing. The Delhi Police recently said gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was the mastermind behind the murder while identifying six shooters allegedly involved in the killing.
Investigators had also revealed that Kamble, said to be a member of the Bishnoi gang, knew that Moosewala was going to be murdered and was allegedly in touch with gangster Vikram Brar a week before the killing. Kamble was picked up from Sangamner near the Pune-Ahmednagar border in connection with the murder of another history-sheeter Omkar Bankhele, which had occurred in Pune’s Manchar taluk last year.
Kamble is said to have sheltered Santosh Jadhav — the second suspect from Maharashtra in the Moosewala murder — who is also the prime accused in the Bankhele case and is still absconding.
