KHALISTAN EXTREMISM MONITOR
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
A project of the Institute for Conflict Management
Almost a fortnight after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the probe into the drug smuggling case involving the Pakistan-based Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) member Harmeet Singh aka PHD, who is believed to be dead, an NIA court sent three arrested accused to the anti-terror probe agency custody. According to NIA officials, the court sent three accused -- Nirmal Singh, Satpal Singh and Hiralal -- for seven days to the agency''s custody.
Labelling slain Khalistani terrorist Harmeet Singh alias Happy PhD as a martyr is an exercise conducted at the behest of Khalistani secessionists in the Sikh diaspora, according to a counter-terrorism expert. Ajai Sahni, who serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, said a handful of people working at the instructions of ageing Khalistanis, who had left India in the 1990s, were trying to give a Khalistani colour to every incident of this nature.
The Special NIA court today declared Kulwinderjit Singh, alias Khanpuria, a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) member accused of planning terror strike in Punjab, as a proclaimed offender (PO). The NIA had filed a chargesheet in a terror conspiracy case on November 21, 2019, against four alleged BKI terrorists, officials said. Khanpuria is reportedly in Malaysia. The NIA had already got a lookout circular issued against him, an officer said
Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has turned several chiefs of Sikh terror outfits based in Pakistan into drug smugglers who are destroying a generation of youth of Punjab and other parts of India, informed sources have revealed.
In a major drug bust case, the Punjab Police seized nearly 200 kg heroin, claimed to be worth around Rs 2,000 crore, from a house in Sultanwind village of Amritsar district and arrested six people, including an Afghan national, officials said.
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Murdered Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harmeet Singh, nicknamed Happy PhD, appears to have been cremated on Wednesday afternoon in Lahore in presence of fellow extremist Lakhbir Singh Rode, the chief of secessionist International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), according to people familiar with the matter.
A top leader of a pro-Khalistan outfit, wanted in India, has been shot dead by two unidentified attackers outside a gurdwara near the Wagah Border, a police source said on Tuesday. Harmeet Singh alias 'Happy PhD', a leader of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), was killed on Monday near Dera Chahal Gurdwara on the outskirts of Lahore, the source said.
In yet another case of religious persecution in Pakistan, a renowned Sikh political leader was forced to leave the country after “receiving threats”. Radesh Singh Tony, who had contested the 2018 general elections in Pakistan from Peshawar as an independent candidate, was allegedly tortured by some unidentified people last month when he was passing through the Kacha Jail Road along with his son.
According
to Central Crime Branch police, he was residing in Bengaluru for the last six
months and is also allegedly in touch with Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI). Police said he was living in a paying guest accommodation
and was working in a private firm. Police remain tightlipped over the arrest
and refused to share further information about other possible suspects.
The tribunal has held that it was clear from the evidence on record that activities of the group were "unlawful", "disruptive" and "threaten the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of India".
Justice Patel also said that the evidence proves that SFJ was "working in collusion with anti-India entities and forces".
"Thus, the Central Government had sufficient cause to take action under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for declaring Sikhs For Justice as an unlawful association.
"The notification dated July 10, 2019 issued by the Union of India under the Act declaring Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) to be an unlawful association is hereby confirmed. The reference is answered in the affirmative," the tribunal said.
The Centre by its July 10, 2019 notification had declared SFJ as an unlawful association and had banned it for five years, saying the group's primary objective was to establish an "independent and sovereign country" in Punjab and it openly espouses the cause of Khalistan and in that process, challenges the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India.
Thereafter, in August a tribunal was set up for adjudicating whether there was sufficient cause to declare SFJ as an unlawful association.