NEW DELHI: The cost sheet submitted by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in a Delhi courtroom mentions how Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) has “roped in” infamous gangsters-turned-terrorists like Harwinder Singh, Lakhbir Singh, Arshdeep, amongst others, for utilizing their felony community for planning and finishing up terror assaults and focused killings in Delhi, Punjab and different components of the nation.
“These gangsters-turned-terrorists — Harwinder Singh a.ok.a Rinda (based mostly in Pakistan), Lakhbir Singh alias Landa (based mostly in Canada), Arshdeep a.ok.a Arsh Dalla (based mostly in Canada), and so on. — have additional engaged their felony community and unemployed youth not solely in Punjab but additionally these from neighbouring states by providing them both large amount of cash or promise of settling them overseas for receiving, dumping, transporting and additional making them out there to finish customers (executioners) to execute the sensational and horrendous high-profile killings that are akin to the then Bombay underworld terror assaults in final a long time of 20th century,” the cost sheet alleges.
The NIA in its investigation has established that incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi alongside together with his associates residing overseas aren’t solely indulging in extortion actions but additionally conspiring to focus on distinguished socio-religious and political individuals on the behest of Professional-Khalistani terrorist organisations like Babbar Khalsa Worldwide (BKI).
“The a part of the extorted cash is getting used for terror funding and for arranging refined weapons for executing terror acts in India and overseas. Members of Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang are additional utilizing our on-line world and social media to publicise their terror acts by posting video clips or by taking duty for his or her felony/ terror actions to create deeper and widespread terror among the many individuals at giant,” the cost sheet states.
Notably, the Bishnoi gang operates in northern India, primarily in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, and even overseas in international locations like Italy, Armenia, Canada, the US, Dubai, the Philippines, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. Within the age of social media, these gangs flaunt their dominance and entice tens of millions of followers by way of numerous social media handles, attracting extra kids to hitch their gang.
Furthermore, the cost sheet additional states that Punjab has round 553 km of worldwide border with Pakistan and there are 456 villages throughout the distance of 5 km from the worldwide border. “Its proximity to Jammu and Kashmir additional provides a critical dimension to its safety as there have been steady sinister efforts to disturb the unity and integrity of the nation of the Jammu and Kashmir space. In latest occasions, there have been critical makes an attempt by Pakistan to revive the secessionist motion of Khalistan by way of a collection of terrorist acts aimed toward creating unrest in Punjab, vitiating social concord and disturbing peace within the state,” the cost sheet claims.
The investigation company says that there have been many cases the place the arrested terror module members have revealed the planning of terror assaults usually by terror teams/ people based mostly overseas and particularly the “Pak-based Professional-Khalistan ones”. “In recent times, the availability of refined militant {hardware} comprising hand grenades, tiffin bombs, IEDs, RDX, RPGs, pistols and so on., has been ramped up by way of the cross-border smuggling community for focused killings,” the NIA stated in its cost sheet.
NIA investigations revealed that in 2022 after the killing of Pradeep Kumar, a Dera Sacha Sauda follower, Satinderjit Singh a.ok.a Goldy Brar in affiliation with Lawrence Bishnoi and Landa, a BKI affiliate, threatened to kill 5 different Dera Sacha Sauda followers.
