LUDHIANA: Nephew of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon, who is former Punjab assembly speaker, was on Saturday arrested by the Ludhiana police in connection with the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala. The arrested accused, on the instructions of gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, had helped three 'suspected shooters' reach Bathinda with weapons by taking the help of his friend, Satbir Singh of Amritsar, who has already been arrested.
The accused, Sandeep Singh Kahlon, alias Sona, who is a panchayat secretary at Hargobindpur in Gurdaspur, was held by Ludhiana police near Barewal canal and remanded to three-day police custody. Ludhiana's deputy commissioner of police (investigation) Varinder Singh Brar said, "During the investigation of the Sidhu Moose Wala murder, the police noticed a Toyota Fortuner with suspected shooters at a filling station in Bathinda on June 19 in CCTV footage.
