New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet towards infamous gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar and 12 others having hyperlinks with the proscribed Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and several other different pro-Khalistani terrorist outfits, within the second of the three terror-gangster nexus instances.
All the 14 accused have been charged with prison conspiracy to unleash a wave of terror and perform focused killings of well-known social and spiritual leaders, film stars, singers and businessmen, mentioned the NIA. Besides having hyperlinks with conspirators in Pakistan, the accused had been additionally in touch with pro-Khalistani parts based mostly in Canada, Nepal and different international locations, NIA investigations have revealed.
Bishnoi, in custody since 2015, has been working his terror-crime Syndicate from Jails in several States, together with Canada-based Goldy Brar, who’s an accused within the killing of Pradeep Kumar, a Dera Sacha Sauda follower, in Faridkot in November 2022, mentioned the NIA.
Bishnoi terror-crime-extortion syndicate was additionally chargeable for offering killers for the Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) assault case on Punjab State Intelligence headquarters at Mohali, which was carried out on instructions of Harwinder Singh alias Rinda, a Pakistan-based BKI terrorist, the NIA investigations have revealed.
The anti-terror company mentioned Brar was discovered to have direct hyperlinks with Lakhbir Singh alias Landa, one other BKI operative working carefully with Rinda.”Landa is also an accused in the Mohali RPG attack as well as the December 2022 RPG attack on police station Sirhali in Tarn Taran, Punjab,” mentioned the NIA, including “Investigations towards Landa and three others are persevering with.
“NIA has seized an enormous cache of 9 unlawful and complex weapons, 14 magazines, 298 rounds of ammunition and 183 digital units, and different incriminating materials in raids throughout 74 areas in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh, and Delhi within the case.
The investigating company had carried out large-scale searches over a interval of six months and examined round 70 members of various Organised Crime Support networks in the course of the course of its investigations. Seven Look Out Circulars and 5 Non-Bailable Warrants have to date been issued within the case by the NIA, which has additionally attacked and seized seven immovable properties beneath Section 25 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and frozen 62 financial institution accounts.
The company mentioned the investigations additional led the NIA to the hideouts arrange throughout Haryana and Punjab, which had been getting used to harbor the gangsters and retailer weapons. Besides Bishnoi and Brar, different charge-sheeted accused have been recognized as Jagdeep Singh, Sachin Thapan, Anmol Bishnoi, Vikramjeet Singh, Sandeep Jhanjariya, Virender Pratap Singh, Joginder Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Raj Kumar, Anil, Naresh Yadav, and Shahbaaz Ansari.
Earlier, on March 21, the NIA had filed its first chargesheet towards 12 accused within the terror-gangster nexus instances beneath investigation. The accused in that case had been recognized as Arsh Dala, Gaurav Patyal, Sukhpreet Buddha, Kaushal Choudhary, Amit Dagar, Naveen Bali, Chhotu Bhat, Asif Khan, Jagga Takhatmal, Tillu Tajpuria, Bhupi Rana and Sandeep Bandar. Today`s motion takes the overall variety of accused charge-sheeted by the NIA to date in these instances to 26.
