A team from the operation cell of the Chandigarh Police has arrested four persons, associates of the Davinder Bambiha group, who revealed that a plot to kill Punjabi singers Babbu Maan and Mankirt Aulakh was going on, police said on Wednesday.
The four persons, identified as Manu Batta (29), Aman Kumar (29), Sanjeev Kumar (23) and Kamaldeep (26), told police that planning was going on to assassinate the duo of Punjabi singers. The officials said that the arrested persons told them, during the interrogation, that they were contacted by foreign-based gangsters through WhatsApp for the supply of long-range weapons from Jammu and Kashmir as a conspiracy to kill the Punjabi singers was going on.
During interrogation, one accused Aman revealed that a hardcore gangster, Prince, a close aide of Canada-based gangster Lucky Patial, had contacted him through WhatsApp and asked if there was any accomplice of his in Jammu and Kashmir who could supply long-range weapons,” Chandigarh Police said, adding that a plot to kill Babbu Maan and Mankirt Aulakh was going on. Police have also recovered weapons and live cartridges from the possession of these four persons. The police said that the arrested persons are being interrogated in detail.
