The trial against 25 accused, including gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, in the murder case of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, is set to commence on August 9 in the Mansa district and sessions court. The jail authorities presented all 25 accused in the court through video conferencing on Wednesday.
After nearly 11 months of filing the first chargesheet against the gangsters by the Punjab Police special investigation team (SIT), the court of chief judicial magistrate Mansa, Surabhi Prashar, committed the chargesheets to the sessions court. The court will begin the process of framing charges against the accused next month.
The incident occurred on May 29 last year when Moose Wala was shot dead by six assailants in Punjab’s Mansa at Jawahar Ke village. Gangster Goldy Brar, affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, claimed responsibility for the murder, citing it as revenge for the killing of Youth Akali Dal leader Vicky Middukhera in 2021.
The police identified the six shooters as Priyavrat Fauji, Kashish, Ankit Sersa, and Deepak Mundi from the Haryana module, along with Manpreet Singh alias Mannu and Jagroop Singh alias Roopa from the Punjab module. Mannu and Roopa were killed in an encounter with the Punjab police in Amritsar on July 20 last year.
The SIT investigating Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder has filed two chargesheets against 31 accused individuals, including gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar, and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, alleging that the murder was part of a series of revenge killings between the Bishnoi and Bambiha gangs. The investigation revealed a history of retaliatory killings, with each gang seeking vengeance for its members’ deaths.
