The Delhi Police Special Cell on Monday announced that they have arrested three persons, including two shooters, in connection with the murder of Congress politician and Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. 

The accused have been identified as Priyavrat alias Fauji (26), a resident of Sonipat in Haryana, Kashish (24), also from the state’s Jhajjar district, and Keshav Kumar (29), a resident of Bhatinda in Punjab, they said.

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The trio were arrested on June 19 from Kutch in Gujarat, police said.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known as Sidhu Moosewala, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29.

Priyavrat could be seen in a CCTV footage of a petrol pump prior to the incident. He was previously involved in two murder cases and was arrested in 2015 in one of the cases in Sonipat and also wanted in another murder case in Sonipat in 2021, police said.

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As per starsunfolded.com, Priyavrat was born in Garhi Sisana, Kharkhoda tehsil, Sonipat in Haryana. He went to Army Public School in Pune. 

Priyavrat’s parents names are Jai Bhagwan and Santosh Devi, as per starsunfolded.com. While growing up, he attended a local village school and learnt wrestling. He joined the Indian Army under the sports quota.

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In the army, Priyavrat won a gold medal in wrestling and was promoted to the post of Subedar. On holiday in 2015, he met amkaran Baiyanpur, the leader of the Ramkaran gang. The same year, as per starsunfolded.com, he was involved in the murder of a person in Sonipat. In 2021, he killed father of gangster Bittu Barona. 

HGS Dhaliwal, special CP, Delhi Police that the accused had conducted multiple recces before executing the murder.

Eight grenades, nine electric detonators, three pistols and one assault rifle have been recovered from arrested accused, Dhaliwal said at a media briefing here.