CHANDIGARH: Two days after Punjab Police arrested foreign-based gangster Satinderjeet Singh, aka Goldy Brar’s parents, from Amritsar in a December 2024 extortion case amid the state government’s crackdown on gangsters, a purported audio of Brar surfaced on Wednesday in which he warned the government “not to indulge in such acts,” threatening to strike back at police officers and political leadership, and saying, “We can get 1 man killed every day.” In the purported audio, in which he claimed to know the whereabouts of all the relatives and children of political leaders and police officers, Brar threatened: “You are limited only up to Punjab; we are spread across the whole world.” “I want to say this to the Punjab government, if you have courage, you should do the right thing and take me head-on,” Brar was purportedly heard saying in the audio, pointing out that an earlier statement about him being caught had turned out to be wrong. He said in the clip, “You made all efforts—used all agencies, all police—and still you could not catch me, and now you arrested my elderly mother and father from Harmandir Sahib when they went for darshan [to pay obeisance]. What do you think, that you will scare us? No, we are not afraid like this.” A Punjab Police officer, wishing to remain anonymous, told TOI: “There is a high possibility that the audio is of Goldy Brar only, unless it is AI-generated.” The officer added, “If he is so concerned about his mother and father, he should introspect whether his parents are really proud of him. Will his parents say that our son achieved so much and reached the moon, or did anything right? A person who can get his parents into trouble, irrespective of where he is sitting, and a person who snatched scores of sons from mothers, has no right to complain about what his parents have to go through.” Also referring to Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha, the assassins of retired Chief of Army Staff Gen AS Vaidya—who headed the Army during Operation Bluestar in 1984—MP Lalit Maken, and Delhi municipal councillor Arjan Dass, Brar purportedly said in the video: “When the system earlier committed so many excesses that policemen started going after daughters, sisters, and mothers inside homes, at that very time the boys—ordinary college-going boys, like Bhai Jinda Ji—who used to contest college presidencies, and were confined only to fights and disputes, and at that time were even called rowdies or bad characters, and whom college boys would call Changiara badmaash—those same boys later became Bhai Harjinder Singh Jinda, the great martyr of the Panth, along with Bhai Sukha Ji, who corrected arrogant people like you.” Issuing a threat, Brar purportedly said: “Do not do such acts. Do not insult someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s mother without any fault, as it leads to a lifelong enmity. Governments keep coming and going. We know where all leaders, all police officers—everyone’s family, everyone’s children—are settled abroad. You are limited only up to Punjab; we are spread across the whole world.” He further said: “If you bring things to this point, then we know all your relatives, of all police, all leadership. Do not do injustice. If you do injustice, then we will also do injustice. If we come to doing injustice, we can get 1 man killed every day—don’t keep an illusion in your mind.” Justifying the murders committed at his behest, Brar purportedly said: “I never got any person murdered for nothing; I settled old enmities openly. I got no saintly person killed, irrespective of the fact that the world can make anyone into a saint. The one I targeted and got killed—look at his background. Do not do such actions; otherwise, a lifelong enmity will be created.” He also said, “We have this much attachment with our soil. Do not make us turn our face away from our soil.” The police officer quoted above said: “There is nothing to boast or be proud of in being a killer or murderer. A murdered person cannot have a reason to justify killing. Two wrongs do not make a right. There is a system; there may be flaws, but that does not justify killing in a civilised society. It is not jungle raj.” “Sooner or later, justice will be served to him. A crime is a crime. Nothing lasts forever. There were many dhurandars and people like Sikander who eventually vanished,” the officer added.
