Chandigarh firing case: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against 10 accused in the firing case at a businessman's house in Chandigarh on Saturday by associates of terrorist Goldie Brar. Two accused in the chargesheet are absconding, including one Goldie Brar. Brar has been named as the main conspirator in the RC-03/2024/NIA/DLI case and has been accused of forming a terrorist group to carry out terrorist activities in India.
The attack took place in Chandigarh on January 19. His close associate Gurpreet Singh alias Goldie Dhillon, who is absconding in this case, has been accused as a co-conspirator. On January 19 this year, a businessman's house was attacked in Chandigarh. Terrorist Goldie Brar's associates opened fire at the victim's house.
Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar had earlier also demanded ransom from the businessman. According to the NIA investigation, Goldy Brar and Goldy Dhillon had recruited the arrested accused in their terror gang, which revealed that Brar was running a big gang, extortion and narco network through his associates based in India.
Further investigation revealed that these associates were involved in procurement/smuggling of arms and ammunition, sale of narcotics, channelisation of narcotics proceeds.
The case was transferred from Chandigarh Police to NIA on March 8, 2024. Investigation revealed that the accused had hatched a conspiracy to target rich businessmen in Punjab, Chandigarh and other states of India. As per Brar's method, when the businessmen refused to pay the money, their houses were physically attacked/fired upon etc.
Apart from Goldy Brar and Gurpreet Singh alias Goldy Dhillon alias Goldy Rajpura, the other accused have been identified as Gurwinder Singh alias Laddi, Kashi Singh alias Harry, Shubham Kumar Giri alias Pandit, Amritpal Singh alias Gujjar, Kamalpreet Singh, Prem Singh Sarbu and Gagandeep Singh alias Goldy.
In the chargesheet filed today in a special NIA court in Chandigarh, the NIA has charged all the 10 accused under relevant sections of the IPC, UA(P) Act, Arms Act and the NDPS Act.