New Delhi: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Tuesday filed a cost sheet in opposition to 5 individuals, together with ‘designated particular person terrorist’ Lakhbir Singh Rode alias Baba and Ranjot alias Rana, in a case referring to cross-border smuggling of arms by drones into Punjab.
Apart from Rode and Ranjot, the others named within the cost sheet are Taranjot Singh alias Tanna and Gurjit Singh alias Paa of Gurdaspur in Punjab, and Pakistan-based smuggler Rehmat Ali alias Miyan, an NIA spokesperson stated, reported PTI.
In response to the PTI report, the cost sheet was filed within the NIA particular courtroom, in Punjab’s Mohali, within the case by which a cache of firearms and ammunition have been recovered from a cremation floor in village Bagtana Boharwala, Dera Baba Nanak, Batala, within the border space of Punjab, on March 24, 2023.
The NIA spokesperson stated, “The seizure had included 5 Glock pistols, 10 magazines and reside cartridges (9 mm). Investigations up to now have proven connections between members of the proscribed terrorist organisation Khalistan Liberation Pressure (KLF) and people primarily based in Pakistan within the case.”
Together with the accused charge-sheeted on Tuesday, the NIA had recognized one Malkit Singh alias Pistol additionally as concerned within the intricate community of arms smuggling from throughout the border. Malkit was earlier charge-sheeted within the case on November 11, 2023. Malkit, Tanna, and Paa have been discovered to have been in direct communication with Rehmat Ali, Rode, and Ranjot, PTI quoted the spokesperson as saying.
As per investigations, the smuggled arms have been meant to be used in focused killings of individuals from different faiths and for extortion to boost funds for the banned Khalistan Liberation Entrance and Worldwide Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF).
Your complete conspiracy was additionally aimed toward making a stir within the media with the last word goal of making an environment of concern and terror in India.
Rode was linked with the KLF and was the chief of ISYF, who’s reported to have died in Pakistan in December 2023. Each the KLF and ISYF have been banned by the Centre attributable to their direct involvement in a sequence of heinous crimes, together with killings, bombings, and numerous different terror actions, as a part of their violent marketing campaign, reported PTI.
As per the PTI report, The ban on these organisations was a response to their orchestrated armed assaults on regulation enforcement personnel, legal intimidation, homicide, extortion, fundraising for terrorist actions, and instilling terror among the many basic populace.
The current case was initially registered at Batala police station underneath numerous sections of the Arms Act and the Plane Act. The NIA had taken over and re-registered the case by including sure sections of the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.