Last Updated: March 10, 2023, 14:14 IST
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Rajvir ‘Raj’ Singh Gill has in latest months proven up on the property, disrupting prayers and threatening members of the gurudwara. (Picture for illustration/AFP)
Rajvir Raj Singh Gill was taken into custody final Saturday after being accused of six counts of solicitation to commit a prison act
A former Indian-American Bakersfield City Council candidate was arrested in California in the US on suspicion of attempting to rent hit males to shoot members of one in all Bakersfield’s largest Sikh temples, Gurudawara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji Khalsa Darbar and burn down the property, a report has stated.
Rajvir “Raj” Singh Gill, 60, was taken into custody final Saturday after being accused of six counts of solicitation to commit a prison act, in accordance to ANI.
The Sikh chief was already underneath a short lived restraining order not to harass the temple.
According to Sukhwinder Singh Ranghi, temple committee member, Gill has proven up on the property in latest months, disrupted prayers and threatened members of the congregation and carrying a gun earlier than being arrested at one level.
Gill had provided $10,000 to two males to kill some leaders of the congregation who’re concerned in the courtroom instances together with Sukhwinder Singh Ranghi.
Raghi stated Gill drove the lads across the metropolis stating the residences of the temple leaders he had focused. The focused males got here to know this by way of affiliate of the supposed hit males, the report stated.
However, there aren’t any data of his arrest prior to Saturday. The report stated that Gill had received lower than 7 per cent of the vote in November’s Ward 7 election.
Ranghi stated that Rajvir “Raj” Singh Gill repeatedly confronted due to a dispute over greater than USD 800,000, contributed by members of the congregation, that was supposed to reimburse a company entity arrange to purchase the temple out of foreclosures in July 2020.
“It’s the greed that most likely got to him,” Ranghi added.
Manpreet Kaur, a City Councilwoman, who received final fall’s election, known as the allegations towards Gill unfathomable.
“It’s really heartbreaking. It is. It’s frightening and I’m just hoping the community stays safe,” she reportedly stated.
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