The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted searches at 15 locations in Punjab, in connection with the grenade attack on a police station in Gurdaspur district in December last year.
Cracking down further on the activities of the banned Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist group, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out searches in Gurdaspur, Batala, Amritsar and Kapurthala districts of Punjab. The agency seized various incriminating materials, including mobiles/digital devices and documents.
Cracking down further on the activities of the banned Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist group, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday searched 15 locations in Punjab, in connection with the grenade attack on a police station in Gurdaspur district in December…
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NIA nabs key Khalistani operative
On May 11, The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a key Khalistani operative Kashmir Singh Galwaddi associated with foreign-based Babbar Khalsa terrorist Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda and one of the hardened criminals who had escaped during the Nabha jail break in 2016.
The breakthrough came when NIA nabbed Galwaddi of Punjab’s Ludhiana from Motihari in Bihar in coordination with police in connection with a Khalistani terror conspiracy case.
NIA: Galwaddi had been actively associated with designated Khalistani terrorists
As per the NIA, Galwaddi had been actively associated with designated Khalistani terrorists including Rinda since breaking out of Nabha jail.
An important node of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and Rinda’s terror gang in Nepal, NIA said, Galwaddi was a proclaimed offender in the NIA case, his role relating to involvement in conspiracy, providing shelter, logistics support and terror funds to aides of the Khalistani terrorists. “These aides had escaped to Nepal after carrying out various terror activities in India, including the RPG attack at the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters.”
NIA had registered case suo moto in August 2022
NIA had registered the terror conspiracy case suo moto in August 2022 to probe the terrorist activities of chiefs and members of proscribed terrorist organisations such as BKI, Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) and International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), among others.