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Incidents and Statements involving Khalistan
Zindabad Force: 2008-2012
2012
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November 27: Replying to a question,
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs R. P. N Singh told Lok
Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) that various terrorist groups,
including Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) are engaged in terrorist activities in the country. "As per
available information, militants/terrorists active in India are
often supported by their parent outfits based abroad, particularly
in Pakistan," he said. Singh said other terrorist outfits which
are active in India include Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Al-Umma,
Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami (HuJI), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM),
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
and Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF).
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October 8: Sources in Jalandhar
Police claimed that during interrogation, Jaswant Singh Azad disclosed
names of nearly a dozen other British nationals, who are directly
or indirectly involved in militant activities.
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October 4: Principal Sessions Judge
(Jammu) acquitted alleged militant of KZF, Tej Paul Singh, as prosecution
failed to prove its case. He was arrested by Gandhi Nagar Police
(Jammu) as soon as he entered the State for carrying out terrorist
activities.
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September 30: Punjab Police arrested
a terrorist linked with several pro-Khalistan militant groups. British
national Jaswant Singh Ajad, actively working for banned terrorist
organisations BKI KZF and Khalistan Tiger Force was arrested from
Focal Point area of Jalandhar city in Jalandhar District.
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September 24: The FIR registered
against Panch Pardhani leader and former terrorist Daljit Singh
Bittu names three others believed to be in Pakistan those booked
by Police are Wadhawa Singh, 'chief' of the BKI, Ranjit Singh Neeta
of the KZF and Jagtar Singh Tara of the Khalistan Tigers Force.
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May 26: KZF militant, Sandip, arrested
on May 20, admitted to have received training in Lahore (Pakistan).
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May 23: Two KZF terrorists, Sukhwinder
Singh and Sandip Singh, arrested on charges of waging war against
the Centre have been remanded in Police custody till May 24 by a
local court.
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May 20: Two suspected militants,
identified as Sandeep Singh and Sukhwinder Singh, belonging to KZF
were arrested in Kamana village of Nawashahr District of Punjab.
2011
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October 13: Jammu and Kashmir DGP
Kuldeep Khoda said that Police was working on all leads, including
a possible nexus between the LeT and Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF),
who might have jointly plotted the terror strike which was foiled
with the recovery of the car laden with explosives in Ambala in
Haryana on October 12. Asserting that Babbar Khalsa International
(BKI) was not an active outfit in Jammu, Khoda said Police had reports
that KZF was trying to revive itself. The KZF is headed by Ranjeet
Singh alias Neeta of Simbal in Jammu, who was presently operating
from Lahore in Pakistan. Recently, there had been reports of a nexus
developing between Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir militants, which
were corroborated with the reports that Neeta was trying to revive
KZF in Jammu. The explosives were reportedly packed and sent from
Jammu and Kashmir. "The spot could be anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir
but since the role of KZF is emerging, the possibility of supply
of explosives somewhere in Jammu including the border areas is not
ruled out'', sources said, adding the KZF might have helped the
BKI in the terror plot hatched jointly with the LeT outfit. "We
had inputs that an LeT module active in Jammu and Kashmir was planning
to strike in Delhi. Investigations were done and found that the
explosives were meant for BKI and to be used in Delhi. We received
a specific input yesterday [October 11] about the movement," Arun
Kampani, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) said.
2010
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October 10: A cadre of the KZF,
who is also associated with the BKI, was arrested by Anti-Terror
Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
The arrestee, identified as Gurjant Singh, was a native of Kurukshetra
District in Haryana. An Italian pistol and some documents were seized
from him. Gurjant reportedly acted as a link between KZF and BKI.
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October 10: A cadre of the KZF,
who is also associated with the BKI, was arrested by Anti-Terror
Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
The arrestee, identified as Gurjant Singh, was a native of Kurukshetra
District in Haryana. An Italian pistol and some documents were seized
from him. Gurjant reportedly acted as a link between KZF and BKI.
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August 25: The IB warned that "inimical
agencies" operating from "international bases" were trying to revive
militancy in Punjab by forging an alliance between Khalistani outfits
and the LeT. Calling attempts to revive Sikh militancy a worrisome
trend, IB Chief Rajiv Mathur said, "There have been clear attempts
by inimical agencies abroad to reactivate Sikh terrorist elements,
forge nexus between LeT and terrorist groups like BKI and KZF and
mobilise their resources for planning terrorist violence in Punjab
and elsewhere in the country." Mathur, though, did not name any
country or identified any agency, officials tracking the development
later said interrogation of those arrested recently in Jalandhar
and Amritsar in Punjab clearly hinted at their association with
Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.
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August 4: A serious
attempt is being made by the militants sitting in Pakistan with
the help of Pakistan’s Army and spy agencies to revive militancy
in Punjab using former militants and border smugglers and International
Border (IB) of Jammu for smuggling of arms, explosives and hawala
money. Some important revelations have been made by two border smugglers
and courier of militants, arrested by Police and Counter Intelligence
(CI) in Jammu, during their sustained interrogation at the Joint
Interrogation Centre (JIC) pertaining to revival of militancy in
Punjab, official sources said.
Sources said Satnam
Singh alias Tainy son of Prabhu Dayal, a resident of Kapoorpur in
RS Pura and Parvesh son of Bihari Lal, a resident of Avtal in RS
Pura were reported to have disclosed during their questioning by
Police and CI that the militants of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
with active connivance of Pakistan Army, Rangers and Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) used to throw consignments of arms, explosives,
ammunition and hawala money from across the border to this side
at a fixed point near the border fencing. The consignments were
meant for ‘KZF’ militants in Punjab.
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August 2: Police claimed
to have arrested two conduits of the KZF in connection with seizure
of arms and ammunition from Border out Post (BoP) Bakarpur in R
S Pura sector of Jammu District. Parveen Kumar son of Bihari Lal
and Satnam alias Tani son of Prabhu Dayal resident of Kapoorpur
in R S Pura were arrested by the Police in connection with seizure
of arms and ammunition from Border out Post (BoP) Bakarpur in RS
Pura, a week ago. "Both the accused during interrogation disclosed
that KZF chief Neeta, presently in Pakistan had sent the said consignment
of arms and ammunition to this side for carrying subversive activities
in Pakistan," sources said, adding that it was the second consignment
sent by Neeta in last few months. Sources said that duo further
disclosed that first consignment was handed over by them to Darshan
Singh son of Ajit Singh resident of Nadi (R S Pura) and they got
INR 25,000 for this job. Darshan, however, went underground soon
after Border Security Force troopers recovered a big consignment
of arms and ammunition including Chinese Pistols and rounds from
BoP Bakarpura.
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July 23: Pakistan-based
Sikh militants, supported by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI), might carry out bomb blasts in New Delhi before the Commonwealth
Games, the Punjab Police has alerted, reports Times of India. An
advisory circulated recently among all senior officers in the State
by the intelligence department of Punjab Police has pointed out
that Sikh militant leaders based in Pakistan are under "tremendous
pressure" from the ISI to carry out sabotage activities in India
before the Games. "Militant leaders, including KZF chief Ranjit
Singh Neeta are planning to undertake some militant actions, including
bomb blasts, before the Games scheduled in New Delhi in October,"
the advisory said. It also stated that around 15 kilograms RDX was
smuggled into India from Pakistan by Neeta's contacts, which was
divided into three parts, most of which has been seized by Police
from different places in the State including Ferozepur and Rajpura.
Intelligence sources of the State Police have inputs that Neeta
could himself enter India if those directed to carry out the nefarious
designs failed in their task. "Certain militants sitting abroad
are desperate to push four Sikh extremists into India to carry out
nefarious activities," the advisory said. Meanwhile, police have
been sensitised and directed to take necessary preventive and detective
measures to avoid any untoward incident, official sources said.
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May 2, 2010: On the
basis of information provided by Punjab Police, a KZF militant,
identified as Nirmal Singh alias Nimma, was arrested from Fokatpura
locality under Devendranagar Police Station in Raipur, SP Om Prakash
Pal said.
2009
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October 21: The Special
Operation Cell of Punjab Police arrested a militant of the KZF.
Police said that Barkat Singh, a close associate of Ranjit Singh,
the KZF chief who is based in Pakistan, against whom many cases
pertaining to terrorist activities were registered was arrested
a few days back.
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May 26: According
to information posted on the London-based Akash Radio Website, the
Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) has claimed responsibility for the
May 24 attacks on a Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) in Vienna.
The Website claimed that it had received an e-mail, written on the
KZF's letterhead, was signed by one Ranjit Singh. The KZF is said
to have said the incident occurred because "these people did not
heed to the warnings that they should not disrespect Guru Granth
Sahibji by sitting parallel to Sri Guru Granth Sahibji; letting
people bow before them in the Guru Sahib's presence and committing
various unacceptable anti-maryada (Sikh code of conduct) acts. As
they continued to commit such sins, the KZF was forced to take this
action."
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May 4: According to
military intelligence, a group of 935 Pakistani women are being
trained by the ISI, Pakistan's external intelligence, in the Faridkot
District of Punjab province in Pakistan to entice men and motivate
them into becoming terrorists in India. According to a military
intelligence report, the group is also being trained at a camp in
Kotli, Pakistan. It said a joint meeting of senior ISI officers
with representatives of al Qaeda, LeT, Khalistan Zindabad Force
(KZF) and Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) on April 23 near Talwandi
(in Pakistan) was attended by Neeta, KZF leader, and Nazira Begum,
the wife of Kotli training camp principal Shah Mohammad. Taught
to breach national boundaries, these women generally enter India
through West Bengal and Bihar borders and are equally adept at using
computers and in blackmailing youth.
2008
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September
25, 2008:
Army and police arrested a Rashtriya Rifles personnel identified
as Ranjeet Singh for his suspected links with the KZF when he was
fleeing from his unit at Baramulla in Kashmir valley along with
two AK-47 rifles in Banihal town on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
June 11,
2008: Punjab Police
disclosed the arrest of Bibi Ranjeet Kour, a front ranking activist
of 'Iknoor Khalsa Fauj' (IKF) from village Ranwa between Barnala
and Patiala a few days back. Official sources said that Biwi had
approached KZF chief Ranjeet Singh Neeta in Pakistan for supply
of arms to three militants who had been assigned the task of killing
Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and Pyara Singh Baniyarawale. The militants
including Malkeet Singh, Surjeet Singh and Harbans Singh, were arrested
by police from Dumi Malpur in Kanachak area along Jammu-Akhnoor
road on June 3 along with a consignment of arms and ammunition including
one AK-56 rifle and five Chinese pistols besides a large quantity
of arms and ammunition. Official sources further told that Bibi
Ranjeet Kour was a close associate of Jagtar Singh Hawara, one of
the killers of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. Bibi Ranjeet
Kour, who was also stated to be working for Pakistan's ISI, had
agreed to help 'Iknoor Khalsa Fauj' after Malkeet Singh and his
associates met her at her Ranwa residence in February this year
soon after Malkeet was released from Patiala Central jail after
serving a 10 month sentence in connection with an arms case.
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February 15, 2008: Three KZF militants,
Sukhdev Singh, Satbir Singh and Purushottam Singh were sentenced
to five years rigorous imprisonment by a court in the national capital
New Delhi for a bomb blast in the Kailash Hotel in Paharganj area
on March 13, 2000 in which three persons were wounded.
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May 3, 2007: Intelligence
agencies reportedly said that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, are trying to revive militancy
in Punjab through sympathisers of Sikh militant groups like the
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), the International
Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), Khalistan Zindabad
Force (KZF) and Khalistan Commando Force (KCF).
Information has reportedly been sent to the Punjab Police about
the plans to target towns of Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Pathankot region.
Instructions have also been given to monitor the activities of sympathisers
of BKI-Hawara, ISYF-Rode, KZF- Neeta and KCF, who are sending funds
through hawala (illegal money transfers) to "re-launch their separatist
movement."
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June 18, 2006: Satnam
Singh alias Satta, a terrorist of the Pakistan-based KZF, confessed
during interrogation that he carried out the bomb blasts at the
bus terminal in Jalandhar on April 28, 2006, on the instructions
of the outfit’s chief Ranjit Singh Neeta.
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June 26, 2005: Three KZF activists,
identified as Hardeep alias Badal, Sukhwinder alias Pappa, and Harpreet
alias Ricky, are arrested from the Jammu region. According to the
police, two pistols, a country-made gun and some ammunition were
recovered from their possession.
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April 27, 2005: A court in Jammu acquits
an KZF activist in an illegal weapons possession case for lack of
evidence. The police had arrested KZF ‘commander’ Balbir Singh on
September 27, 1997, while roaming under suspicious circumstances
on the banks of the Chenab. A mouser along with a magazine and 20
live cartridges besides a rifle and 66 cartridges were recovered
from him.
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February 10, 2004: Attarjit Singh,
a KZF cadre and reportedly a professional border crosser, is arrested
by the Jammu Police for his alleged links to the January 21, 2004-escape
of Jagtar Singh Hawara, an accused in the Beant Singh assassination
case, from the Burail Jail.
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April 15, 2002: Gurdev Singh alias
Mantoo, a KZF terrorist, is arrested from Jammu along with one pistol,
one magazine and 15 live cartridges. Gurdev, involved in criminal
activities in and around Jammu City, came in contact with an associate
of KZF chief Neeta in October 2001.
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April 7, 2002: Trans-border narcotics
and arms smuggler Virender Sharma, a close associate of Ranjit Singh
Neeta, is arrested from Jammu.
- April 3, 2002: The Jammu and Kashmir
Police arrests Amrik Singh, ‘operational commander’ of the KZF, and
his associate Gurdev Singh.
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December 28, 2000: Khuram Masih alias
Manjit Singh alias Kala alias Akaal, a Christian-turned-Sikh and
a close associate of Neeta, is shot dead along with another KZF
cadre, Iqbal alias Balbir Singh and Mohammed Naveed Tahir of the
Islamic Front by the police during an encounter at village Dablehar
in the RS Pura Sector of Jammu.
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November 21, 2000: Mohammed Alam, a
close associate of Mohinder Singh alias Bittu, a constable of the
Special Operations Group and a front ranking KZF cadre, is arrested
from the Kathua district in Jammu.
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November 18, 2000: Prince and Kala
Gujjar, two local harbourers of KZF terrorists, are arrested from
the Kathua district.
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November 9, 2000: Manmohan Singh alias
Sonu, chief priest at the Bakshi Nagar Gurdwara and a front ranking
KZF activist, is arrested by the Jammu Police.
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August 24, 2000: The Delhi Police neutralises
a Nepal module of the KZF with the arrest of three cadres who were
involved in several bomb blasts in Delhi, Punjab and Jammu. Lakhbir
Singh, alias Baba, Manpreet Kaur alias Maan Behanji, sister-in-law
of the KZF chief Ranjit Singh Neeta, and Surjeet Singh were arrested
from the Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) Rakabganj Sahib along
with 32 kilograms of RDX and other explosives.
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March 25, 2000: Three KZF cadres, identified
as Ravinder Singh, Tajinder Singh and Kamaldeep Singh, are arrested
from Jammu.
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March 18, 2000: Three KZF activists,
Sukhvinder Singh alias Mithu, Satvir Singh alias Sunny and Parshotum
Singh alias Kala, are arrested in New Delhi.
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March 17, 2000: The Jammu Police arrest
a suspected activist of the Khalistan Zindabad Force, identified
as Kirtan Singh alias Bitta, who was the mastermind behind the bomb
blasts on board the Sealdah Express and Pooja Express trains. Police
also recovered one Chinese-made revolver, four magazines, 30 rounds,
two AK magazines with 50 rounds and fake currency of Rupees 40,000.
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April 1, 1999: Kathua Police arrests
Ramzan Khan and Basant Singh alias Geelu, two suspected KZF activists,
during raids conducted at Nagrota on a tip off given by Naseeb Singh,
a KZF cadre who had been arrested on January 23, 1999. Police recovered
a revolver, one double barrel gun, three rounds and other ammunition
from the possession of arrested suspects.
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March 28, 1999: A Khalistan Zindabad
Force activist, identified as Keval Singh Rajput, is arrested from
Jammu.
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January 23, 1999: Naseeb Singh, a front
ranking KZF cadre hailing from the Digiana area of Jammu, is arrested
from Kathua. Naseeb Singh was a close associate of former KZF chief
Mohinder Singh Pappi and another ‘commander’ Gurmeet Singh alias
Manga, both of whom were killed in encounters in Punjab.
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October 23, 1998: The Jammu Kashmir
High Court (Jammu Bench) dismisses a petition filed by Ajit Singh,
father of hardcore militant Sulkhan Singh, and KZF activists challenging
the detention of Sulkhan under Public Safety Act for two years.
In the dismissal order, Justice G. D. Sharma observed that it is
established that the detenue is a hardcore motivated militant and
his remaining at large is highly hazardous for the security of the
State and maintenance of public order. According to the grounds
of detention, in the month of April 1997 Sulkhan Singh met with
Punjab militants Attar Jeet Singh and Jagmohan Singh who motivated
him to become an active KZF cadre and get training in handling arms
and ammunition after going to Pakistan.
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