CHANDIGARH: Watering down or withdrawal of police protection to 400-plus at-risk individuals in Punjab was hotly debated following the murder of popular rapper and Congress politician Sidhu Moose Wala, with the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking Monday to know from the AAP government in the state why names of those who had lost their security details were leaked. The HC asked the government to reply by June 2.
Moose Wala, 28, died in a fatal shooting when he was out in his jeep with two other men near his native village of Jawaharke in Mansa district on Sunday evening. Eight of around 30 bullets fired by the gunmen hit the Punjabi rapper, whose real name was Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, and who had released his latest track, "The Last Ride", earlier this month.
