Gangster GoldyBrar’s parents get arrested in an extortion case

The arrest of the gangster’s parents happened in Punjab amid a crackdown on organised crime.

Reports say that Punjab police have taken into custody the parents of fugitive gangster Satinderjeet Singh alias GoldyBrar in connection with an extortion case registered last year in Muktsar district amid a broader crackdown on organised crime networks, officials confirmed.

Punjab police arrest GoldyBrar’s parents.

Senior Superintendent of Police AbhimanyuRana identified the arrested individuals as Brar’s father, Shamsher Singh, and his mother, Preetpal Kaur. Police said that the couple resides in Adesh Nagar, a residential locality in Muktsar town, though the family originally belongs to neighbouring Faridkot district, news agency PTI reported. The arrests stem from an FIR lodged in 2024 following a complaint by a local Muktsar resident who alleged extortion-linked threats. The action against Brar’s family comes amid an intensified state-wide campaign targeting organised crime networks with overseas handlers, Punjab Police officials said, as per the report.

Police identify nearly 60 foreign-based gang leaders.

GoldyBrar, who is among the prime accused in the 2022 killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, had publicly claimed responsibility for the murder, according to investigators. Under the crackdown, the police have identified nearly 60 foreign-based gang leaders and mapped the activities of around 1,200 associates and more than 600 family members suspected of facilitating criminal operations. It is now believed that Brar has relocated to the United States after spending several years in Canada, where he initially travelled on a student visa. As per police records, Brar moved abroad in 2017 and gradually rose from local gang rivalries in Punjab to running a transactional crime syndicate. Investigators also said that Brar was earlier associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang but split from it last year and now operates under a new alliance involving RohitGodara and Kala Jatheri, the PTI report stated.

In a separate, but related development, Ludhiana police dismantled an inter-state extortion and illegal arms network recently, which allegedly operated on Brar’s instructions from abroad.