Moose Wala case: Cops move bail, singer still on run

PATIALA: Four of the five cops, booked by the Sangrur and Barnala police for taking Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala to Badbar police firing range in Barnala district and allowing him to use fire arms, including an AK-47 rifle, have now applied for anticipatory bail before a Sangrur court, while the singer himself is still on the run.
Those moving the court are suspended ASI Balkar Singh, head constable Gurjinder Singh and constables Jasveer Singh and Harvinder Singh. The fifth accused cop, head constable Gagandeep Singh, is yet to move his application.
They had first been booked by the Dhanaula police in Barnala district On May 4 under Section 188 of the IPC and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act and the next day, the Sangrur police had also registered a case against them under same sections. Later, on the intervention of the HC, sections of the Arms Act were also added to the FIRs registered in the two districts.
The Barnala and Sangrur police had recently constituted special teams to carry out raids to arrest Sidhu Moose Wala, the five cops and three other individuals against whom the FIRs had been registered in Dhanaula after a video showing the singer using an AK-47 automatic weapon at Badbur police firing range surfaced in social media. The next day, another case was filed against all the accused at Dhuri police station after another video showing the singer firing from his 9mm pistol at the Ladda Kothi police firing range reached the top officials of the district police.