Salman Khan Was On Hit List Of The Accused In Sidhu Moose Wala Case, Reveals Punjab DGP

The
Punjab
Police
recently
opened
up
on
the
links
between
popular
Punjabi
singer
Sidhu
Moose
Wala
murder
case
and
the
death
threats
sent
to
Bollywood
superstar
Salman
Khan.

According
to
a
report
in
Hindustan
Times,
Gaurav
Yadav,
Punjab
director
general
of
police
(DGP),
told
reporters
during
a
briefing
that
Kapil
Pandit,
one
of
the
accused
arrested
in
the
Moose
Wala
murder
case
revealed
that
he
was
approached
by
the
Lawrence
Bishnoi
gang
through
Sampat
Nehra
and
Goldy
Brar
to
kill
Salman.

Yadav
said,
“During
the
probe,
one
of
the
arrested
accused,
Kapil
Pandit,
revealed
that
he
along
with
Sachin
Bishnoi
and
Santosh
Yadav
had
conducted
a
recce
in
Mumbai
to
target
Salman
Khan.
They
had
done
an
elaborate
recce
and
they
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
Mumbai
and
we
will
also
verify
this
angle
in
the
investigation.”

He
further
added,
“The
disclosures
on
targeting
Salman
Khan
were
preliminary
and
yet
to
be
corroborated.
We
can
even
send
a
team
to
Mumbai.”

Santosh
Jadhav,
who
is
an
accused
in
the
Moose
Wala
assassination
case
and
Sachin
Thapan,
who
has
been
detained
in
Azerbaijan,
were
also
part
of
this
deadly
plan.

During
the
preliminary
interrogation,
Pandit
also
revealed
that
he
had
carried
out
recce
several
times
with
the
intention
to
kill
Moose
Wala
at
the
behest
of
the
Lawrence
Bishnoi
gang
to
avenge
the
death
of
youth
Akali
leader
Vicky
Middukhera.

Meanwhile,
the
Punjab
Police
on
Saturday
(September
10)
arrested
the
sixth
and
last
shooter,
Deepak
Mundi
in
the
Moose
Wala
murder
case
along
with
his
two
aides
Kapil
Pandit
and
Rajinder
Joker
from
the
Indo-Nepal
border
in
West
Bengal
when
they
were
trying
to
escape
to
Nepal.

For
the
unversed,
singer
Sidhu
Moose
Wala
was
shot
dead
by
unidentified
gangsters
in
Mansa
district
of
Punjab
in
May
this
year.
Days
after
this
shocking
incident,
Bollywood
star
Salman
Khan
and
his
writer-father
Salim
Khan
had
received
a
death
threat.