Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Khalistan Tiger Drive (KTF) chief, was shot useless by two youths within the parking zone of a gurdwara in Canada’s Surrey. The unidentified youths shot Nijjar, a delegated terrorist, on the premises of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib, of which he was the pinnacle, in Surrey round 8:27pm (native time) on Sunday.
Who was Hardeep Singh Nijjar?
1. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was spearheading a marketing campaign and propaganda towards India, together with by organising demonstrations outdoors Indian missions within the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada, apart from ordering concentrating on killings in Punjab.
2. He was working carefully with different designated terrorists – Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and Paramjit Singh Pamma underneath the banner of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which was banned by the ministry of house affairs (MHA) in 2019.
3. Nijjar’s residences in Canada had been listed by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in its paperwork as – 8193, 143-A Road, Surrey BC, Canada and 1418, 142 Road, 72 Avenue, BC (British Columbia) Canada.
4. A chargesheet filed by NIA in December 2020 towards Pannun, UK-based Paramjit Singh Pamma and Canada-based Hardeep Singh Nijjar acknowledged that the SFJ, floated within the garb of ‘Human Rights advocacy group’ with its places of work in numerous overseas international locations just like the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and so forth, is a frontal organisation of Khalistan terrorist outfits working from overseas soils together with Pakistan.
5. Nijjar forcibly occupied Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh temple to change into its president. Within the final couple of years, he was frequently seen as a part of protests in entrance of the Consulate Common of India, Vancouver.
Nijjar labored with Avtar Singh Khanda
Final week, Avtar Singh Khanda, a Khalistani chief of the Khalistan Liberation Drive (KLF), died in a hospital within the UK.
In line with intelligence companies, Khanda and Nijjar labored collectively to organise protests outdoors Indian excessive commissions and in addition sponsored terror assaults in India.
The NIA had introduced a reward of ₹10 lakh on Nijjar.
Who was Avtar Singh?
Avtar Singh Purba alias Khanda was concerned within the assault on the Indian Excessive Fee in London. He died at a hospital within the metropolis of Birmingham on Thursday morning after a chronic sickness, a UK-based Sikh organisation stated in an announcement.
Sikh Federation UK, which has styled itself as one of many largest Sikh organisations based mostly within the UK, stated Avtar Singh was terminally in poor health with blood most cancers. He was on a life assist system for the previous few days.
Avtar Singh was wished within the conspiracy to kill Sukhbir Singh Badal (president of Shiromani Akali Dal-B), former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini and senior advocate Rajwinder Singh Bains.
He was allegedly concerned in terrorist actions within the UK by becoming a member of the banned Khalistan Liberation Drive (KLF) remnants energetic in Britain and different international locations.