Express News Service
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Vikramjeet Singh alias Vikram Brar, a key aide of infamous jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, quickly after he arrived in India after being deported from the UAE. An NIA group had gone to the UAE to safe his deportation and convey him again to India.
Brar, who was needed for his involvement within the sensational killing of well-known Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala, was taken into custody by the NIA. Besides focused killings of businessmen, he was concerned in circumstances of smuggling of weapons and extortion in India with the assistance of gangsters Bishnoi, Goldy Brar and others, sources within the NIA mentioned.
Absconding since 2020, Brar was needed in at the very least 11 circumstances of homicide, try and homicide, extortion underneath varied sections of IPC in addition to the Arms Act. Eleven lookout notices have been issued in opposition to him by police in varied states together with Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.
According to an NIA official, Brar was working as a ‘communications control room’ (CCR) for the Bishnoi terror gang from the UAE. This CCR was additionally facilitating calls of Bishnoi and Goldy Brar (based mostly in Canada) and additional upon their instructions, he used to make extortion calls to numerous individuals.
Brar’s CCR additionally enabled calls of important gang leaders with operatives and gang members. An open-non bailable warrant of arrest was issued by the NIA Special Court, Delhi. A lookout round was additionally issued within the title of the accused, who was chargesheeted on March 24, 2022 by the NIA in a case underneath sections 120B and 384 of IPC, part 17 and 18 of the UA(P) Act, 1967, together with different 13 co-accused.
In 2020-2022, in accordance with NIA investigations, Brar had actively helped Goldy Brar in executing the killing of Moosewala. Bishnoi had additionally despatched cash many occasions to Brar via hawala channels. Brar had demanded extortion cash from a physician in Kurukshetra (Haryana) and likewise threatened him.
Before changing into an in depth affiliate of Bishnoi, Brar was related to the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU). Along with different associates, he actively participated in varied crimes like homicide, try and homicide and extortions and so on. He had been helping and facilitating the Bishnoi gang in focused killings and extortions in Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab. He was additionally offering logistic assist to gang members, NIA sources mentioned.
The NIA has to date arrested 16 individuals within the terror-gangster conspiracy case. Further investigations into the conspiracy are persevering with as a part of NIA’s efforts to destroy the rising nexus between terrorists, gangsters and drug smugglers, and to dismantle their infrastructure, together with funding channels.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Vikramjeet Singh alias Vikram Brar, a key aide of infamous jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, quickly after he arrived in India after being deported from the UAE. An NIA group had gone to the UAE to safe his deportation and convey him again to India.
Brar, who was needed for his involvement within the sensational killing of well-known Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala, was taken into custody by the NIA. Besides focused killings of businessmen, he was concerned in circumstances of smuggling of weapons and extortion in India with the assistance of gangsters Bishnoi, Goldy Brar and others, sources within the NIA mentioned.
Absconding since 2020, Brar was needed in at the very least 11 circumstances of homicide, try and homicide, extortion underneath varied sections of IPC in addition to the Arms Act. Eleven lookout notices have been issued in opposition to him by police in varied states together with Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
According to an NIA official, Brar was working as a ‘communications control room’ (CCR) for the Bishnoi terror gang from the UAE. This CCR was additionally facilitating calls of Bishnoi and Goldy Brar (based mostly in Canada) and additional upon their instructions, he used to make extortion calls to numerous individuals.
Brar’s CCR additionally enabled calls of important gang leaders with operatives and gang members. An open-non bailable warrant of arrest was issued by the NIA Special Court, Delhi. A lookout round was additionally issued within the title of the accused, who was chargesheeted on March 24, 2022 by the NIA in a case underneath sections 120B and 384 of IPC, part 17 and 18 of the UA(P) Act, 1967, together with different 13 co-accused.
In 2020-2022, in accordance with NIA investigations, Brar had actively helped Goldy Brar in executing the killing of Moosewala. Bishnoi had additionally despatched cash many occasions to Brar via hawala channels. Brar had demanded extortion cash from a physician in Kurukshetra (Haryana) and likewise threatened him.
Before changing into an in depth affiliate of Bishnoi, Brar was related to the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU). Along with different associates, he actively participated in varied crimes like homicide, try and homicide and extortions and so on. He had been helping and facilitating the Bishnoi gang in focused killings and extortions in Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab. He was additionally offering logistic assist to gang members, NIA sources mentioned.
The NIA has to date arrested 16 individuals within the terror-gangster conspiracy case. Further investigations into the conspiracy are persevering with as a part of NIA’s efforts to destroy the rising nexus between terrorists, gangsters and drug smugglers, and to dismantle their infrastructure, together with funding channels.
