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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has portrayed Lawrence Bishnoi arsenic a don helming a 700-member beardown transgression enterprise. (File)
In the aftermath of the execution of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) person Baba Siddique past week, being the latest successful a fig of high-profile crimes successful caller years linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, the Ministry of External Affairs Thursday said India had shared requests with the Canadian broadside for the apprehension of those from the gangster’s gang, but nary enactment has been taken connected these concerns by the Justin Trudeau government.
Addressing a property briefing, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal informed of Canada’s reluctance to extradite members associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
He said arsenic galore arsenic 26 extradition requests person been shared with the Canadian authorities implicit a decade, arsenic good requests for the apprehension of immoderate individuals with panic charges, portion besides raising security-related concerns.
“They haven’t taken immoderate enactment connected our halfway concerns. There is simply a governmental motive besides down this,” helium said.
The remarks travel a time aft Canadian Prime Minister Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, testifying earlier the nationalist enquiry into overseas interference successful national electoral processes and antiauthoritarian institutions, claimed the Indian diplomats were collecting accusation connected Canadians who are successful disagreement with the Narendra Modi authorities and passing it to the highest levels wrong the Indian authorities and transgression organisations similar the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had earlier alleged that the Bishnoi pack is connected to the agents of the Indian government, which is targeting the South Asian assemblage specifically “pro-Khalistani elements” successful the country.
From likening his emergence successful the satellite of transgression to fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim to highlighting his links with pro-Khalistani elements, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has portrayed Lawrence Bishnoi arsenic a don helming a 700-member beardown transgression enterprise.
In its 128-page chargesheet successful the UAPA lawsuit against Bishnoi and 15 others filed successful March 2023, the counter-terrorism instrumentality enforcement bureau NIA has said determination are 84 cases registered against him successful Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi. Bishnoi’s transgression empire has “700 operatives, 300 among them from his location authorities Punjab”, it said.
The bureau besides characterised his syndicate arsenic 1 that “formed an confederation with the pro-Khalistan cause, to fulfill its quest for blase weapons and to further put the proceeds of coercion generated done their existing extortion rackets”.
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