NIA Team Lands In London To Probe Pro-Khalistan Elements

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reached London to probe the violent demonstration and attempt to vandalise the Indian High Commission by pro-Khalistan protesters on March 19.

Official sources tell OneIndia that the NIA team will work closely with the Scotland Yard and Metropolitan Police in London. The NIA would look to gather details about the elements who were behind this demonstration, the source also added.

Another official who did not wish to be named said that the basic angle of the probe apart from identifying the trouble makers would also be into the larger conspiracy. There have been reports galore that Khalistan elements residing in London and Canada have the support of Pakistani handlers.

Pro-Khalistan supporters had pulled down the Indian National Flag and also attempted to vandalise the High Commission in London on March 19. The British Police had however not reacted at that time.

The NIA took over the probe fro, the Delhi Police after the Ministry of Home Affairs had met with the UK Home Office representatives in April.

The NIA would be looking into the role by Pakistan into the incident. The NIA is also looking into a larger gangster-terror nexus. It has been probing the role of local gangsters who at the behest of those hiding in Canada are staging attacks in India.

In the Mohali RPG attack case, the NIA had learnt that gangsters from Canada a the behest of the ISI were directing locals to stage attacks in Punjab.

Furthermore the NIA is also probing gangsters operating from the jails in India. Recently the agency learnt that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi had drawn up a hit-lit in which actor Salman Khan was on the top. He is being probed in connection with the murder of singer Siddhu Moosewala.