‘Large amounts of NRI money in Punjabi music industry and Kabaddi, make them targets of gangsters’
Extortion bids are never reported to the police, says Shashi Kant, former DGP, Punjab. Popular singer Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead on Sunday.

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