The charge sheet submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a Delhi court mentions how Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) has “roped in” notorious gangsters-turned-terrorists like Harwinder Singh, Lakhbir Singh, Arshdeep, among others, for using their criminal network for planning and carrying out terror attacks and targeted killings in Delhi, Punjab and other parts of the country.“These gangsters-turned-terrorists — Harwinder Singh a.k.a Rinda (based in Pakistan), Lakhbir Singh alias Landa (based in Canada), Arshdeep a.k.a Arsh Dalla (based in Canada), etc. — have further engaged their criminal network and unemployed youth not only in Punjab but also those from neighbouring states by offering them either huge amount of money or promise of settling them abroad for receiving, dumping, transporting and further making them available to end users (executioners) to execute the sensational and horrendous high-profile killings which are akin to the then Bombay underworld terror attacks in last decades of 20th century,” the charge sheet alleges.
The NIA in its investigation has established that incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi along with his associates residing abroad are not only indulging in extortion activities but also conspiring to target prominent socio-religious and political persons at the behest of Pro-Khalistani terrorist organisations like Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).