Team News Riveting
Surrey, June 19
Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead reportedly by two unidentified gunmen in the Punjabi-dominated Surrey city of Canada’s British Columbia province on Sunday evening.
Head of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey and Chief of the Khalistan Tiger Force, he was associated with Sikhs for Justice– an organisation banned by India for its secessionist activities. He was shot dead in the parking lot of Gurdwara by two unidentified youths at 8.27 pm.
Nijjar, 46, a native of Bhar Singh Pura village in Jalandhar, was known to be actively involved in operationalising, networking, training, and financing members of the Khalistan Tiger Force. He had played a key role in organising the so-called Khalistan referendum in Brampton city that created anti-India optics.
It was claimed that over one lakh people took part in this separatist activity. India had lodged a protest with the Canadian government for allowing this anti-India activity on its land. Last year, the Punjab Police had sought the extradition of Nijjar as he was wanted in cases related to acts of reviving terrorism in the state.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier filed a chargesheet against Nijjar for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks. It had announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head.
Nijjar’s associates in India have been carrying out reconnaissance of gatherings of the hardline Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), “with an intention to target them and strike terror,” the investigating agency said.
Nijjar’s name was also among the four persons against who a charge sheet was filed by the NIA in connection with a conspiracy to kill Hindu priest Kamaldeep Sharma in Jalandhar on January 31, 2021. The others include Kamaljeet Sharma, Ram Singh and Arshdeep Singh alias Prabh.
According to the NIA, the conspiracy was hatched by accused Arshdeep and Nijjar, both based in Canada, to disturb peace and disrupt the communal harmony in Punjab by killing a Hindu priest.
Nijjar had been accused of killing Ripudaman Singh Malik, the man who was acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing case, in Surrey last year.
