New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Vikramjeet Singh alias Vikram Brar, a key aide of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, immediately after his deportation from UAE to India on Tuesday, news agency ANI reported. A team from NIA had gone to UAE to facilitate this deportation and bring him back to India.
“Brar, involved in the sensational killing of famous Punjabi Singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala, was taken into custody by the NIA. Besides targeted killings of innocent people and businessmen, he was involved in cases of smuggling of weapons and extortion in India with the help of dreaded gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar and others,” NIA said in a statement.
"Absconding since 2020, Brar was wanted in at least 11 cases of murder, attempt to murder, extortion under various sections of IPC as well as the Arms Act. Eleven look out notices had been issued against him by competent authority on request by various State Police, including Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi," a statement issued by the NIA said.
According to a report by news agency PTI, the arrest was made in connection with a terror-gangster conspiracy case that the federal agency is investigating. The NIA has arrested 16 persons in connection with the case so far.
According to a report by News18, Vikram Brar was operating as a ‘communications control room’ (CCR) for the Lawrence Bishnoi gang from the UAE. The CCR was also facilitating calls of Lawrence Bishnoi and Canada-based Goldy Brar, and upon their directions, he used to make extortion calls to various people.
The report further stated that Vikram Brar’s CCR enabled calls of main gang leaders with the members. An open-dated Non-Bailable Warrant of Arrest (NBWA) was issued by the NIA Special Court, Delhi.
A Look Out Circular (LOC) was also issued in the name of the accused, who was charge-sheeted on March 24 last year in NIA case no. RC-39/2022/NIA/DLI under sections 120B and 384 of Indian Penal Code, sections 17 and 18 of the UA(P) Act, 1967, along with 13 co-accused.