On February 1, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it had filed a charge sheet against two more Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) members, Manpreet Singh alias Peeta and Mandeep Singh, who were deported from the Philippines recently, in the gangster-terror-nexus case, reports New Indian Express. Naming the two in the charge sheet, which was filed in a special court, the NIA has identified them as associates of ‘listed individual terrorist’ Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dalla. “Dalla had recruited Peeta and Mandeep, who were operating from the Philippines on his direction. The duo was actively involved in recruiting youth into Dalla’s Terror and Crime Syndicate,” an unnamed senior NIA official said. The official further alleged that the two were playing a vital role in the larger terror conspiracy against India by raising funds for the proscribed terror outfit KTF through large-scale extortions in India and “routing the extorted money into drug and other businesses” in various countries through the hawala network. Earlier, the NIA had filed charge sheets against 13 accused persons in the case in July and November 2023.