NIA files charge sheet against 3 in 2017 Ludhiana’s Hindu leader’s killing case

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 13

Anti-terror federal probe agency NIA said on Wednesday it has filed a charge sheet here at a local special court against three arms suppliers in the case of the killing of Hindu leader Amit Sharma, the President of Sri Hindu Takht, Ludhiana in the year 2017.

Officials in the NIA said, in the charge sheet the agency has named arms suppliers Ashish Kumar, Javed, and Arshad Ali alias Munshi, all residents of District Meerut of Uttar Pradesh. They have charged under various sections of India Penal Code (IPC), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act- UAPA and Arms Act, they said.

“The case has arisen out of the Ludhiana Police FIR dated January 15, 2017, related to the killing of Hindu leader Amit Sharma, the President of Sri Hindu Takht, Ludhiana,” NIA spokesperson Jaya Roy said.

On January 14, 2017, two unknown motorcycle-borne assailants killed Amit Sharma as a part of an organised conspiracy hatched by terrorist outfit Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), she said, adding that the murder was one among eight such cases of serial killings/attempted killings that took place in Punjab in 2016-2017 with a view to create terror and communal disturbance.

“Investigation has established that accused persons Ashish Kumar, Javed, and Arshad Ali @ Munshi had facilitated the other accused persons in commission of the terrorist act leading to the killing of Amit Sharma by supplying illegal fire arms used in the crime. They had supplied illegal arms including .32 bore pistols which, along with other weapons/fire arms, were used in target killing cases in Punjab,” the spokesperson said.  

Earlier, the NIA had filed chargesheet, on May 14, 2018, against 15 accused persons in the case. They included Hardeep Singh alias Shera, Ramandeep Singh alias Canadian, Dharminder Singh alias Guguni, Anil Kumar alias Kala, Jagtar Singh Johal alias Jaggi, Amaninder Singh alias Mindu, Manpreet Singh alias Mani, Ravipal Singh alias Bhunda, Pahad Singh, Parvez alias Farru, Malook Tomar, Harmeet Singh alias Happy, Gurjinder Singh alias Shastri, Gursharanbir Singh alias Pehalwan and Gurjant Singh Dhillon.