Summary:
Chandigarh, Jul 21 (PTI) With the sixth shooter allegedly involved in singer Sidhu Moosewala"s murder still absconding, state police chief Gaurav Yadav said on Thursday said efforts to nab him are on.
While two shooters have been killed in an encounter with police on Wednesday, three were arrested earlier.
The director general of police (DGP) also said the department is making efforts to extradite Canada-based Goldy Brar, who claimed responsibility for the murder.
Yadav, along with Anti-Gangster Task Force chief Pramod Ban and other senior police officers, on Thursday briefed Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann about the Amritsar encounter.
"We gave a detailed briefing to CM saab about the operation," Yadav told reporters after the meeting with the chief minister.
When asked about the sixth accused Deepak Mundi, Yadav said, "He is the only shooter left now." "We are on our job.
The Punjab Police teams are after him.
We will soon give the result," he added.
The DGP, however, refused to divulge further details about him.
After Moosewala"s murder, police had identified six shooters who were part of the two modules allegedly involved in the singer"s killing.
A Special Cell of the Delhi Police then nabbed three of them --Priyavrat Fauji, Kashish and Ankit Sirsa.
These three, along with Mundi, were part of the first module formed to kill Moosewala.
On Wednesday, the Punjab Police killed gangsters Jagroop Singh Roopa and Manpreet Singh alias Mannu Kusa in a nearly five-hour-long encounter in Amritsar.