Ludhiana: NIA files chargesheet against 3 in Hindu leader murder case

CHANDIGARH: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a supplementary chargesheet on Wednesday before the Patiala House special NIA court in New Delhi against three arms suppliers in a murder case dating back to 2017 in Ludhiana of Shri Hindu Takht president Amit Sharma.
It has come out during the investigation that the murder was a organised conspiracy hatched by the terrorist outfit Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF).The supplementary chargesheet has now been filed against accused Ashish Kumar, Javed and Arshad Ali alias Munshi, all residents of Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh, for criminal conspiracy, under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and under the Arms Act, 1959.
The NIA had registered the case in New Delhi on December 10, 2017, on the basis of FIR registered at police station division number 8, Ludhiana, on January 15, 2017, relating to Sharma’s murder.
The NIA, in its chargesheet, has submitted that its probe has established beyond doubt that accused Ashish, Javed and Arshad had facilitated other accused persons in the commission of the terrorist act to kill Sharma by supplying illegal weapons used in the crime. The trio had supplied illegal arms, including .32 bore pistols, which were used in targeted killings in Punjab. Two unknown motorcycle-borne assailants had killed Sharma on January 14, 2017, in Ludhiana as a part of KLF’s organised conspiracy. Sharma was one of the eight prominent leaders who were killed as a part of the targeted serial killings in Punjab in 2016 and 2017 with a view to create communal disturbance and terror.
The NIA had earlier filed the chargesheet on May 14, 2018, against 15 accused in this case. Those were Hardeep Singh alias Shera, Ramandeep Singh alias Canadian, Dharminder Singh alias Guguni, Anil Kumar alias Kala, Jagtar Singh Johal alias Jaggi, Amaninder Singh alias Mindu, Manpreet Singh alias Mani, Ravipal Singh alias Bhunda, Pahad Singh, Parvez alias Farru, Malook Tomar, Harmeet Singh alias Happy alias PhD, Gurjinder Singh alias Shastri, Gursharanbir Singh alias Gursharan Singh Wahiwala alias Pehalwan and Gurjant Singh Dhillon. The NIA is still continuing its investigation in the case.