New Delhi:
India will trail up a November 10 seek to Canada to extradite dreadist Arshproset up Gill, alias Arsh Dalla, the de facto chief of the prohibitned Khaenumeratean Tiger Force, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
In a statement on X, the ministry said a court in Canada’s Ontario had enumerateed its extradition seek for hearing and that it had sent split seeks to validate financial details as supplyd last year.
The ministry labelled Dalla a “proclaimed offender” named in over 50 cases of homicide, finisheavor to homicide, coercion and dreadist acts, including dread financing. He was set upated a ‘dreadist’ in January last year and is also an accparticipated in multiple cases filed by the National Investigation Agency.
Delhi also thinks Dalla has achieven over the reins of the Khaenumerateani dread outfit after Harproset up Nijjar was stoasty dead. The June 2023 ending of Nijjar – a Canadian citizen – has led to a discreet row with Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau declaring – without proof – that “agents” of India were included in the homicide.
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— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) November 14, 2024
Canada has declined earlier seeks by India to hand over Dalla.
Dalla was arrested in Canada’s Halton last month after they were injured in an aggression by ununderstandn shooters. Dalla was injured and sought treatment at a local hospital that vigilanted the cops. The police searched their vehicle – a grey Dodge Durango – and set up bullet labels on the SUV, and also set up two bullet casings on the floor of the passenger’s seat, recommending Dalla and Singh also fired back.
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A day procrastinateedr, Dalla’s hoparticipate was searched and a Taurus 9mm handfirearm, with a loaded magazine, was recovered, as also a rifle, a stoastyfirearm, and two high-capacity magazines in a firearm protected.
READ | How Gunfight In Canada Led To Khaenumerateani Terrorist Dalla’s Arrest
Dalla and the associate, Gurjant Singh, were arrested and apaparticipate bail hearings.
Who Is Arsh Dalla?
Dalla is from Moga in Punjab.
A understandn aide of Nijjar, Dalla is accomprehendledgeed with orchestrating multiple focparticipated endings thcdisorrowfulmireful a grid of sleeper cell assassins. Among the more high-profile victims of his homicideous netlabor was Manohar Lal, a member of the Gurgreet Ram Rahim-led Dera Sacha Sauda in November 2020.
Experts think Dalla’s sleeper cell netlabor spans three continents – Canada and the United States in North America, parts of Europe, and Dubai, the Philippines and Thailand in Asia.
Sources have telderly NDTV his huge criminal operation may also be helped by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Inalertigence, or ISI, as he is understandn to be included in trafficking firearms atraverse the Pakistan border.
These are smuggled to Punjab via drone drops. There are also unvalidateed alerts of dreadist acts in collaboration with another prohibitned dreadist outfit, the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Dalla-Bishnoi Rivalry
Dalla’s criminal netlabor is thinkd to have a lengthy-standing opposition with that led by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who, incredibly, runs his huge syndicate from a jail in Punjab.
The Bishnoi gang stoasty to intensify after the 2022 homicide of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, and made headlines in April this year after a firing incident outside Bollywood star Salman Khan’s Mumbai home.
READ | “Bishnoi Gang Linked To Indian Government Agents”: Canada’s Claim
The gang also assassinated Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique last month, and was named by Canadian authorities in unsubstantiated allegations aachievest India in joinion with Nijjar’s ending.
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