The Killing Call: 5. The last ride
World Of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sidhu predicted he would die young and by the bullet. Sidhu’s song The Last Ride plays like a premonition. In his final days the death threats intensify and Sidhu is increasingly isolated. We find out who benefited from his murder and how it’s changed Punjab - making it a more dangerous place. Can we finally get answers to why Sidhu was killed?
Presented by broadcaster and DJ Bobby Friction and investigative journalist Ishleen Kaur.
Season 8 of World of Secrets, The Killing Call, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service.
Archive audio credits: First India News, India Today, CBC, CPAC, Al Jazeera, WION, Republic World.
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| 1:17.6 | On a busy street in the city of Mansa, near to west, Siddu Musayala grew up. There's a row of shops. |
| 1:20.6 | Some shops are selling English language and visa services to young Indian Punjabis |
| 1:25.6 | wanting to emigrate. |
| 1:30.0 | Others are selling guns. |
| 1:38.0 | This is boss guns, arms and ammunition shop. And the owner, Chetan Mitha, was Sidhu Saila's gun dealer. |
| 1:44.1 | This is 32-bore pistol. |
| 1:47.0 | Pull the magazine. |
| 1:49.0 | This is empty magazine. |
| 1:51.0 | Chetan says Siddu loved guns. |
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