In the video, Lawrence Bishnoi gang members Sachin Bhiwani, Ankit Sersa and others are seen boasting of killing Mandeep Toofan and Manmohan, members of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria. The video, shot after the killings, confirmed purported our bodies of Toofan and Manmohan mendacity within the jail premises, as Bishnoi gang members are heard celebrating and hurling abuses on rivals.

Addressing a press convention Sunday night, Punjab police Inspector General (Headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill mentioned that Goindwal Jail superintendent Iqbal Singh Brar, Additional Superintendents of Jail Vijay Kumar and Jaspal Singh Khaira, two ASIs Harcharan Singh and Joginder Singh, head constable Surinder Singh and ASP of Jail Harish Kumar had been suspended for “connivance and negligence” within the case. Gill mentioned Brar, Vijay Kumar, Khaira, Harcharan, Joginder and Harish Kumar had been named as accused within the viral video case involving gangsters and had been arrested.

Gill mentioned one other FIR beneath part 66 of the Information Technology (IT) Act and sections 149 (Every member of illegal meeting responsible of offence commit­ted in prosecution of widespread object) and 506 (Criminal intimidation) had been registered in reference to the viral video.

Gill mentioned the motion taken by the Punjab police on the instructions of CM Bhagwant Mann was “an indication that such negligence will not be tolerated in any jail of the state”. The IG mentioned it (the motion taken) was “lesson for future” for different jail officers. He added that gangsters concerned within the deadly conflict had been segregated and despatched to totally different jails within the State like Hoshiarpur, Patiala and Bathinda. Gill mentioned because the gangsters who clashed with one another had been all accused in “one sensational case” [of Sidhu Moosewala murder], there have been “no certain inputs” that they could conflict with one another. He added that after the conflict, they’d been segregated and despatched to totally different jails.

As a part of investigations into the case, the IG mentioned, the gangsters could be introduced on manufacturing warrant for questioning. He added that police would additionally probe how cell phone entered the jail and subsequent sequence resulting in filming contained in the jail and making it viral on social media.

Gill mentioned the 2 ASIs who had been suspended and arrested had been seen within the video as gangsters filmed the 2 our bodies amid celebrating the murd ers whereas utilizing expletives. Responding to a query on jammers, the IG mentioned jammers couldn’t show to be a lot efficient on account of fast altering know-how from 3G to 4G to 5G. Denying stories of its cancellation, the IG mentioned, “G20 is taking place in Amritsar. Punjab government and police are fully capable and prepared.”