Sidhu Moose Wala: Murdered India singer hit by 24 bullets in 30 Rounds, says report - Lawrence bishnoi and kaka Group

 Murdered Indian singer Sidhu Moose Wala was hit by 24 bullets, health officials with access to his autopsy report have told BBC Punjabi.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moose Wala, was shot by unidentified people while travelling on Sunday evening. He was 28.

Thousands of fans gathered outside his village home to pay their respects. He was cremated on Tuesday.

Six people have been detained in connection with the murder.

The attack took place a day after his security was trimmed by the state government and the murder has led to a political storm, sparking massive outrage from fans and opposition leaders. Punjab's Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has ordered an inquiry - led by a high court judge - into the incident.

Video footage of his car showed it was sprayed with bullets, with a number of them piercing the windscreen and the bonnet.

A preliminary post-mortem, done by a team of five doctors, found bullet marks on Moose Wala's chest, feet and abdomen, sources in Punjab state's health department told BBC Punjabi.

A senior health official said a medical team would do a detailed examination of the injury marks.

On Tuesday, thousands of people gathered outside the slain rapper's home in his village - Moosa - in Mansa district to attend his cremation. A large number of police were deployed to ensure the ceremony remained peaceful.

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BBC Punjabi's Sarabjit Dhaliwal reported from the village that thousands of the rapper's fans from the neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the capital, Delhi, visited to pay their last respects.

They included a couple and their six-year-old son. The parents told the BBC that they had never seen the rapper but loved his music.

Since the morning, long queues formed outside the singer's home as people waited to pay their last respects amid chants of "Long live Sidhu Moose Wala".

It was obvious how much people loved Moose Wala from the emotions that we witnessed here today, our correspondent said.

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On Sunday, state police chief VK Bhawra said a Canada-based gangster had said they were behind the attack. But Moose Wala's family demanded an apology from Mr Bhawra for linking the death to gang rivalry without a proper investigation.

On Monday, Mr Bhawra clarified in a statement that he hadn't said that Moose Wala was a "gangster or affiliated with gangsters".

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Thousands gathered at the singer's house in Punjab to pay their last respects

"One Goldy Brar has claimed the responsibility on behalf of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The investigation would look into all aspects regarding the murder," he said.

Opposition leaders have questioned why the singer's security cover was scaled back.

Police said that Moose Wala's security detail had been reduced to two commandos from four, and that these officers weren't travelling with the singer when he was attacked.

He was among over 400 people in Punjab whose security detail was withdrawn or scaled back recently by the government.

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Sidhu Moose Wala was idolised by many fans across India

On Monday, police teams from Punjab and the northern state of Uttarakhand detained six people from Dehradun, news agency ANI reported quoting police sources.

Senior Uttarakhand Police official told ANI that Punjab police was questioning some of the detained men.

How Sidhu Moose Wala Was Killed - Mastermind behind Sidhu Moose wala Murder -Goldy Brar & lawrence Bishnoi Saraj Singh(Mintu)- Full Details & latest update 20220601

Delhi: 

A day after the cremation of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, whose killing shocked the music fraternity and fans alike, chilling details of the attack have been revealed by a friend who was with him in his car. The singer was travelling in his Mahindra Thar SUV to visit his aunt in Barnala when he was shot dead in broad daylight. 

His friends Gurvinder Singh and Gurpreet Singh, who were also in the car, survived the attack. Gurvinder Singh saw the attack from the backseat and has revealed how it all went down.

Sidhu Moose Wala didn't take his pared-down security detail along as five people could not be accommodated in the jeep, according to his friend. His father Balkaur Singh had told the police that he was following Sidhu Moose Wala in another car with the two security men.

The moment Sidhu Moose Wala reached his aunt's village, a shot was fired from behind the vehicle and another car blocked his jeep from the front.

A man carrying an automatic assault rifle appeared in front of the jeep and started firing indiscriminately, Gurvinder Singh said. The 28-year-old singer also fired two rounds from his pistol, which was later recovered from his jeep, but it was no match for the sophisticated assault rifles. 

Gurvinder Singh said that shooters joined in from three sides and firing continued. Sidhu Moose Wala tried to escape but couldn't, he added. 

Sidhu Moose Wala was shot over 30 times by around eight to 10 attackers, police sources had earlier said. Even after firing that many shots, the attackers checked whether he was alive, they said.

Bullets found at the spot of the killing in Punjab's Mansa district indicate that AN 94 Russian assault rifle was also used in the attack.

The singer's father saw the attack and took the body to the hospital. He later filed a complaint with the police.

An SUV and a sedan were waiting on the road; each had four armed men inside, the complaint says. The men sprayed bullets at the car Moose Wala was in, it adds.

"Within minutes, the cars sped away. I started shouting and people gathered. I rushed my son and his friends to the hospital where he died," the complaint says.

The complaint by the singer's father states that several gangsters had threatened him over the phone.

A suspect detained in Uttarakhand was the first to be arrested in the case yesterday. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has ordered an investigation into why the popular rapper-singer's security was pared down. He was on the list of 424 people whose security cover was withdrawn by the Punjab police days ago.

Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar claimed responsibility for Sidhu Moose Wala's murder on Facebook. Goldy Brar is a close aide of gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi, who was taken out of Tihar jail yesterday for questioning.