Punjab: A day after the murder of Inderpreet Singh, alias Parry, in Sector 26 here, Canadian gangster Goldy Brar released a voice message accusing the Lawrence Bishnoi gang of betrayal. His message surfaced after the UT police recovered a white Hyundai Creta suspected to have been used in the attack at the Mansa Devi Complex in Panchkula. Brar’s audio, while quite serious, was a stark contrast to the aggressive online post by the Bishnoi gang claiming responsibility for the murder. Speaking in Punjabi, Brar dismissed allegations that Parry had switched loyalties or joined extortion for another group. Instead, he described the victim as a longtime Bishnoi group loyalist and a longtime friend from his DAV College days, and accused Lawrence of plotting to murder “his own friend” under false pretenses. He claimed that two days earlier, Lawrence had called Parry via an intermediary to discuss a “personal matter”—a call Brar alleges turned out to be a trap. “Lawrence called his own friend and had him killed. This is a new low in friendship,” Brar said, adding that Parry’s family had supported Lawrence for years, even sending food to court dates. Brar argued that Parry had done “nothing to deserve such a death” and insisted that he himself had only taken action against those proven to be police informants or extortionists. Parry’s father, Satinder Pal, is a retired inspector with the Punjab Police, and his elder brother also serves as an ASI with the Punjab Police in Mohali. His elder brother said, “Perry left home with his wife around 5:30 p.m. He dropped his wife off at a salon and went to meet friends in Kala Ghoda around 6 p.m. He had told his friends he was going out for a while. We don’t know why he was targeted this way. Lawrence and Perry knew each other from DAV College.”
Unknown man met Perry outside the club
Sources have confirmed that Perry met an unknown man outside the club (who later attacked him) and went with him on the pretext of discussing something personal with Lawrence. It is also being speculated that either someone from the Bishnoi gang named in the post or Lawrence himself was on the call when the attacker handed the phone to Perry before shooting him. This was done to confirm that the shooting had occurred. Within hours of Monday’s shooting, the Bishnoi gang posted that Parry was killed for allegedly joining a syndicate run by Brar or Rohit Godara and extorting money from clubs under their banner. A claim Brar denied was completely false. Police have yet to verify the authenticity of the Facebook account used to make this claim. Similarly, Brar’s voice note is also subject to forensic examination for authenticity. Meanwhile, police believe that someone inside the car, sitting next to Parry, fired the first shot, after which the attackers, in a white Hyundai Creta, followed.
The gunmen reportedly fired more shots from outside before fleeing towards the Chandigarh-Panchkula border. A total of 11 rounds were fired. The car’s registration number was reported to be PB 10 DN 5333. The Creta was later found abandoned near Axis Bank on the road opposite Mansa Devi in Panchkula. According to registration records, the car was registered in the name of Balwinder Singh, a resident of Tibba Road, Ramesh Nagar, Ludhiana. Meanwhile, the UT Police detained several suspects for questioning, including people present at the Kala Ghoda Club in Sector 26. A police source confirmed that CCTV footage from the Sector 5 parking lot at the MDC showed two men exiting the white Creta and leaving on a bike. Meanwhile, the postmortem was completed at PGIMER around 4:30 pm, and the family may perform Parry’s last rites on Wednesday. Parry’s family finds it difficult to believe that he died so suddenly just weeks after the wedding rituals were completed at the same house in Sector 33. Police sources said that multiple teams are working to identify the man inside who was sitting in the front passenger seat with Parry moments before the shooting. With both sides having come forward, investigators are now focusing on digital forensics, phone records and footage from over a dozen cameras in Chandigarh and Panchkula to ascertain the circumstances surrounding Parry’s murder.
