Pune Police have detained Santosh Jadhav, a shooter in the Punjabi Singer Sidhu Moose Wala murder case. Pune Rural Police also apprehended Jadhav's aide, a suspect in the Mooswala murder case.
Jadhav hails from Pune and is a wanted accused in a 2021 murder case, according to reports. Four cases including that of a murder have been registered against Jadhav at Manchar police station in the district.
The Delhi Police had on Wednesday said gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was the mastermind behind the murder. Siddhesh Hiraman Kamle alias Mahakal was arrested earlier this week from Pune in a joint operation with the Maharashtra Police under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
During joint interrogation of the Special Cell and Maharashtra Police, it was revealed that Mahakal introduced two shooters of Maharashtra module—identified as Santosh Jadhav and Navnath Suryavanshi—to the main perpetrator and they got Rs 3,50,000 each. Mahakal received Rs 50,000 for introducing the shooters to the mastermind, Dhaliwal said. Mahakal, a close associate of the main shooter, is in 14-day custody of the Maharashtra Police.
Police also said Vikram Brar coordinated in organising the shooters.
"In the incident of threat letter to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, Brar has some role and we are probing it and the Maharashtra Police is further working on it, Dhaliwal said. "We are co-ordinating with police forces of different states. Pune Police came to Delhi to interrogate Bishnoi," he said.