Narco-terror case: NIA information chargesheet in opposition to seven folks

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a chargesheet in opposition to seven folks accused of being members of a narco-terror module.
NIA named Jajbir Singh Samra alias Jazz, Varinder Singh Chahal, Kulbir Singh, Manjit Kaur, Taranbir Singh alias Khanpuria, Kulwinderjit Singh alias Khanpuria — an operative of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), and Harmeet Singh alias PhD (a Pakistan primarily based self-styled chief of Khalistan Liberation Force).
The accused have been charged beneath Sections 120-B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 4 and 5 of Explosive Substances Act and Sections 13, 17, 18, 18-B, 19, 20 and 23 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
This case was first registered at Raja Sansi police station in Amritsar (rural) on June 2, 2019 after the seizure of two hand grenades and one cell phone from a bag recovered by Punjab Police which was thrown by two unknown motorbike riders at Harsha Cheena bus cease in Kukkrawala once they have been stopped by a police get together throughout common checking.

NIA had re-registered the case in 2020 and brought over the investigation. The NIA investigation had revealed that accused Jajbir Singh Samra and Varinder Singh Chahal have been a part of a narco-terror module concerned in distributing the heroin smuggled from Pakistan in an effort to channelise the proceeds of medicine to numerous terrorist entities on the instructions of Pakistan-based terrorist Harmeet Singh (Alias ‘PhD’).
The chargesheet additionally said that the accused had additionally picked up grenades and hid the identical at a pre-decided location for finishing up terrorist acts to additional the conspiracy hatched by Harmeet Singh and Kulwinderjit Singh Khanpuria.

The NIA has additionally said within the chargesheet that the investigation had additionally revealed that accused Kulbir Singh, Manjit Kaur and Taranbir Singh Khanpuria had harboured and supplied logistics assist together with lodging, enterprise visa for Kulwinderjit Singh Khanpuria in Cambodia and Malaysia when he had escaped from India.