New Delhi: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has charged three “terrorists” – Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dala and Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa – related to banned Khalistani outfits BKI and KTF, reported information company PTI.
Within the cost sheet, the company has uncovered its worldwide areas concerned within the recruitment and dealing with of terror operatives from India, an official stated on Sunday.
In keeping with the company’s spokesperson, six different members of the Babbar Khalsa Worldwide and Khalistan Tiger Drive have been additionally named within the cost sheet filed earlier than a particular courtroom on Sunday. The group additionally confirmed a troublesome method to increase cash for these two outfits.
The NIA stated it’s also probing the hyperlinks of 16 different absconding and arrested accused linked to BKI and KTF.
The spokesperson stated three infamous gangsters-turned-terrorists and drug traffickers are based mostly overseas and have created their very own community of operatives there to hold out terrorist actions in India.
“By way of this complicated community of expatriate operatives, they’ve been recruiting, encouraging and manipulating their counterparts in India to have interaction in terrorism, smuggling and smuggling of arms and medicines into India,” the spokesperson stated.
“In addition they have hyperlinks with main gangs working in northern India, together with native gangs, organized crime syndicates and networks,” the spokesman added.
In keeping with the NIA, Rinda is a key member of BKI and a Khalistani operative. “Through the yr 2018-19, he fled to Pakistan illegally and is presently dwelling there with the help of the ISI, and is engaged in terrorist actions in opposition to India.
“Rinda is committing varied crimes corresponding to smuggling unlawful arms, explosives, firearms and medicines into Indian territories from Pakistan, kidnapping BKI workers, homicide, elevating cash for BKI by looting the states of Punjab and Maharashtra,” the spokesperson stated.
Linda has been concerned in a number of terrorist actions, together with the RPG assault on the Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters in Could 2022, the official stated. The central celebration designated Rinda, together with Dala and Landa, as “lone terrorists.”
In keeping with the spokesperson, Dala, who hails from Moga, is a infamous gangster who went to Canada someday again and met Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was the pinnacle of the terrorist group KTF.
The 2 have been concerned in recruiting youths and forming terrorist teams to gather funds for the KTF and to kill businessmen and leaders of different communities in Punjab, stated the spokesperson.
The official stated that Landa from Tarn Taran first grew to become concerned in crime and criminals and went to Canada in 2017 the place he met Linda.
Landa started working for the BKI and emerged as a suspect in a number of terrorist incidents, together with the RPG assault on the Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters and the RPG assault on the Sarhali Police station in Tarn Taran in December 2022.
He was additionally the mastermind behind the killing of Punjab Police Sub Inspector Dilbagh Singh in August final yr, the spokesman stated.