NIA arrests Deepak Ranga, important shooter in RPG assault on Punjab Police Intelligence HQ in Mohali
Chandigarh, January 25
The NIA has arrested Deepak Ranga, the principle shooter of the rocket within the RPG assault on Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in Could 2022. Deepak, was absconding because the RPG assault, was caught from Gorakhpur on Wednesday morning.
Deepak Ranga, a resident of Surakpur village in Jhajjar district of Haryana is an in depth affiliate of Canada-based gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu @ Landa and Pakistan-based gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu @ Rinda. Other than his involvement within the RPG assault, Deepak has been concerned in numerous different violent terrorist and legal offences, together with violent killings. He has been actively receiving terror funds and logistical help from Rinda and Landa.
The NIA had registered the case suo moto on September 20, 2022 after it emerged that terrorist outfits and terror components based mostly overseas have been working in tandem with leaders and members of organised legal gangs working in northern states of the nation to commit focused killings and violent legal acts. It had additionally emerged that the terror-gangster-drug smuggler community was additionally engaged in smuggling terrorist {hardware}, corresponding to arms, ammunition, explosives, IEDs, and so on., throughout border by means of a widespread inter-state community of gun runners, unlawful arms and ammunition producers and suppliers and explosive traffickers.
For the reason that registration of three legal instances towards the above terror-gangster-drug smuggler community, NIA has already arrested 19 leaders/members of varied organised legal gangs, two arms suppliers and one huge financier related with the community underneath UAPA.
Canada-based Arsh Dalla was designated as an ‘particular person terrorist’ by the MHA on January 9, 2023. Additional motion to dismantle the terror-gangster-smuggler nexus and infrastructure can be intensified within the close to future.