Exclusive: In Sidhu Moose Wala Killing, New Disclosure Flags A Huge Lapse

Sachin Bishnoi - a close associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi - managed to get his hands on a passport on a fake name and flee India after planning the killing, the police said.

One of the key plotters of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala's killing fled India on a fake passport more than a month before the murder, the police have said, in a lapse that could have prevented the incident had it been detected earlier.

According to the Delhi Police's Special Cell, Sachin Bishnoi was in India till April 21. Moose Wala was shot dead on May 29.

Sachin Bishnoi is a close associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi - believed to be one of the two main conspirators of the rapper's killing, along with Canada-based Goldy Brar.

"He managed to get a passport on a fake name and fled India on April 21," senior police officer HGS Dhaliwal told NDTV.