Goldy Brar: Sidhu Moosewala offered Rs 2 crore to spare his life

Tribune News Service

Jupinderjit Singh

Chandigarh, July 15

Sidhu Moosewala murder mastermind Goldy Brar, who is said to be in Canada, released a video on Friday claiming that they had spurned a Rs 2 crore compromise offer made by the singer following the Vicky Middukhera case.

Can’t be called a martyr

In order to live up to the macho image he had created for himself, he repeatedly committed mistakes for which he was punished... waited for the judiciary to deliver, but it didn’t. — Goldy Brar, Murder mastermind

The video shot in dim light and posted on social media shows Goldy speaking with his face covered. He said he was forced to shoot the video to “counter the propaganda that Moosewala was a Sikh ‘shaheed’ (martyr)”.

“He was not a martyr. In order to live up to the macho image he had created for himself through his songs, he repeatedly committed mistakes for which he was punished. We waited for the Indian justice system to deliver, but it did not. Law is for commoners, not for big stars, leaders and their friends,” Brar said.

“He had been begging for mercy through mediators after the Middukhera murder. He offered to pay us Rs 2 crore for his life through some youths of Muktsar, but we rejected it,” he said.

The Tribune had recently reported that Goldy Brar in his earlier social media posts had claimed that singer Moosewala was killed to uphold their honour. Lawrence Bishnoi, too, while being questioned by the police, insisted that it was not a contract killing but a killing for safeguarding their honour in the underworld. In the latest video, Brar questions those calling Moosewala a ‘shaheed’. “Ninety-five per cent of the people calling him a martyr of the Sikh faith earlier used to hate and criticise him. What has happened now? He was not a hero of the Sikh Panth or a Punjab ‘yodha’. He does not deserve that. You are disrespecting the real martyrs by making such a comparison,” Brar said.

He said, “We had no option but to kill him and take revenge. God knows if we were right or wrong. We bow before Him. We will accept His justice, not of this world. He knows why we did what we did.

“The video has a special purpose. We are bad people. Let us be bad. We don’t want to be good. People bring down houses of good people. They killed my brother who had nothing to do with gangsters. But the police failed to nab his killers,” said Brar.

Meanwhile, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav visited Moosewala’s place on Thursday. He expressed condolences to his parents and assured them that the culprits would soon be brought to justice.

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