The accused identified as Maluk was nabbed from Ghaziabad and he was wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an arms supplier on Thursday who supplied weapons to carry out attack on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader in Punjab. The accused identified as Maluk was nabbed from Ghaziabad and he was wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). It was during raids carried out by a joint team of NIA and Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad at Nahali village in Ghaziabad where the locals and associates of Maluk fired at the police team injuring an NIA and UP personnel.
The Senior Superintendent of Police Ghaziabad said, "We have arrested Maluk and he was wanted by NIA. He was wanted in a high profile murder case wherein he supplied weapons." He, however, refrained from commenting on anything of Maluk being linked to terror organisations or his hand behind the murder of RSS workers in Punjab. "The investigation is at initial stage. We are not aware about his any links with any terror orgnaisations so far," he said.
Maluk was wanted by NIA in the murder case of RSS leader Ravinder Gosain. Gosain, 60, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants near his house in Ludhiana on October 17, while he was returning after attending a morning RSS drill. The case was with Punjab Police and later transferred to NIA along with six other cases related to attack on right-wing and RSS leaders .
During investigation, the NIA on Tuesday had arrested a man for allegedly supplying a gun to the main accused in the killing of an Gosain. The agency arrested Pahar Singh, 48, a resident of Meerut, for supplying a country-made weapon to main accused Hardeep Singh. The Punjab police, which was earlier probing the case, arrested two people — Ramandeep Singh and Hardeep — a few days after the incident. During investigation, it was revealed that Hardeep had visited Meerut on three occasions to procure weapons to carry out targeted killings of members of the RSS and other organisations. During further probe it was found that Maluk supplied weapon to Pahar Singh.
The NIA is also probing six other cases wherein RSS and right wing leaders were attacked since 2016 as they found few suspected terrorists hiding in Punjab is selecting the targets and carrying out the killings at the behest of their ISI handlers and some leaders of the Khalistan Liberation Force who have taken refuge in Pakistan.
In the last 16 months, as many as seven RSS leaders have been gunned down in various parts of the state. NIA made this observation after they took over the case of Gosain's murder that such targeted killings were carried out to destabilise law and order situation in Punjab.
The investigating agency has said that all the murders seemed to be the handiwork of the same persons. In some cases, even the weapons used were same.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "Crime")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}