Ghaziabad: A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) was attacked in Ghaziabad's Bhojpur area on Sunday, when it was conducting a raid to arrest an arms smuggler, who is wanted in the murder case of RSS worker in Punjab's Ludhiana.
An NIA staff received a bullet injury during the exchange of fire with the criminals. He was admitted to a hospital in Meerut.
On October 10, 2017 Gosain, who was the Mukhya Shikshak of Mohan shakha of the RSS, was shot by two unknown assailants on a motorbike outside his residence in Ludhiana’s Gagandeep
Colony. The Punjab Police registered a case and investigation was taken up.
During the course of investigation, two accused persons namely Ramandeep Singh and Hardeep Singh were taken in the NIA custody from the Ludhiana Police on November 22, 2017.
During their examination, these accused persons have admitted their involvement in the previous
eight incidents of murder or attempted murder in Punjab which have happened since January, 2016. Targets in these incidents generally were members of the RSS and Hindu organizations. Besides, in July, 2017, they also murdered a Christian pastor named Sultan Masih in Ludhiana. It has also come to light that the above mentioned conspiracy to destabilise Punjab has been hatched by Sikh extremist elements and others located in various parts of the world including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, United Arab Emirates and Pakistan.
The investigation conducted so far has revealed channelling of funds from foreign countries for
execution of the these incidents. The conspiracy also included an element of ideological brainwashing and incitement of the above accused persons on religious grounds by their mentors settled abroad. Investigation of the case is continuing.
