The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a cost sheet towards gangsters Satinder Singh alias Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi, who conspired to assassinate Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala on May 29 final yr, and 12 others in reference to its probe right into a nexus of north India-based gangsters, Pakistan-backed Khalistani terror teams, and medicines and arms smugglers.

Brar, towards whom Interpol has issued a pink nook discover, is hiding in Canada, whereas Bishnoi is in a jail in Punjab. The NIA probe has revealed they’re linked with Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and several other different pro-Khalistani teams. The NIA cost sheet filed on Friday was not associated to Moosewala homicide.

This is the second cost sheet within the probe on the terrorist-gangster community. The first cost sheet was filed on Tuesday, naming one other Canada-based gangster Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dala, and 11 others. It alleged that an ecosystem just like the Mumbai underworld had emerged with hyperlinks between the music trade, singers, kabbadi gamers and legal professionals to eradicate and terrorise sure leaders, singers and businessmen, extort cash from them and create unrest within the nation.

Bishnoi, in custody since 2015, has been working his terror-crime syndicate from jails in numerous states, together with Brar, who’s an accused within the killing of Pradeep Kumar, a Dera Sacha Sauda follower, in Faridkot in November 2022, a NIA spokesperson mentioned on Friday.

“The Lawrence Bishnoi terror-crime-extortion syndicate was also responsible for providing killers for the RPG attack case on Punjab State Intelligence HQs at Mohali (May 9, 2022), which was carried out on directions of Harwinder Singh alias Rinda, a Pakistan-based BKI terrorist,” the spokesperson added.

Brar has direct hyperlinks with Lakhbir Singh alias Landa, one other BKI operative working intently with Rinda, investigations have revealed. Linda can also be needed in December 2022 RPG assault at Sirhali police station in Tarn Taran, Punjab.

“All the 14 accused have been charged with criminal conspiracy to unleash a wave of terror and carry out targeted killings of well-known social and religious leaders, movie stars, singers and businessmen. Besides having links with conspirators in Pakistan, the accused were also in contact with pro-Khalistani elements based in Canada, Nepal and other countries,” the NIA mentioned.

On December 2 final yr, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann declared that Brar had been detained by US authorities in California, however the info was not confirmed by Indian or American businesses.

In this explicit case, the NIA has seized 9 refined weapons, 14 magazines, 298 rounds of ammunition and 183 digital gadgets and different incriminating materials in raids throughout 74 places in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Delhi up to now six months. At least 70 members of various organized crime assist networks have been examined and 7 look out circulars have been issued towards suspects, apart from attaching seven immovable properties and freezing 62 financial institution accounts.

The company has to this point cost sheeted 26 accused in its bigger probe.