———- As Canadian and U.S investigators tightened noose around Indian NSA Ajit Doval, he diverted probers towards Bishnoi gang, linking Bishnoi to IB and Amit Shah
———- US Federal investigators have uncovered direct links between the dramatis personae in the Pannun case and the Nijjar killing
———- Doval used Amit Shah and his IB to benefit from Bishnoi gang but secretly threw Amit Shah under the bus to save own skin
———- RAW agent Nikhil Gupta, arrested from Prague, spilled the beans to FBI investigators after being extradited to US in June and gave strong evidence of Ajit Doval, RAW Chief Goel and RAW’s US Station officer Vikash Yadev (CC 1) to FBI investigators during interrogation regarding Pannun murder conspiracy
———- RAW’s Wikash Yadav, wanted by FBI was arrested last year by Delhi Police on charges of Abduction and extortion using name of Bishnoi gang but was soon released , leaving a clear nexus between IB, RAW and Bishnoi gang
———- Doval and RAW Chief Goel were summoned to a US district court for the southern district of New York but they did not appear
———- This gravity of the situation pushed Doval not only to skip Modi;s New York visit for UNGA but also he secretly leaked some leads towards Bishnoi Gang and Amit Shah’s being Patron of Bishnoi and gang to both the Canadian and US investigators
———- Bishnoi and his gang operating just like Chhota Rajan and his gang used to
———- Guru Ram Rahim, Chhota Rajan and Bishnoi, all are being facilitated to operate from secured spots inside Indian prisons
———- RAW and Intelligence Bureau both continue to use these gangsters and their domestic and international networks for external and internal operations respectively
———- Doval, after becoming NSA in first stint, brough about various changes in the operational methods of both RAW and IB and temporarily replaced Chhota Rajan with Bishnoi in India, Nikhil Gupta in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Goldy Brar in Canada while their gang members in other areas remained unchanged
———- As per Doval plan, Chhota Rajan has been running operations from secured facility of Prison after being over exposed and now is being given clean chit in all cases against him, one by one
———- Chhota Rajan gang’s undercover RAW operators included Babloo Srivastava, Kalia Goga, Guru Satam (Malaysia), Sanjay Khanna (Singapore), Ravi Pujari (Vietnam, Indonesia), Daya Shetti (Tangiers, Morocco, Spain, France), Rajan himself (Australia), Ajay Verma (US) and Ramesh Gupta alias Pappu (South Africa) and Nikhil Gupta (Easter Europe and Central Asia) who continue to operate worldwide as unannounced RAW Station Chiefs in the designated countries and territories
———- The Anti-Sikhs drive of Indian NSA brought Goldy back from Canada to carry out Sidhu Moosewala assassination plan along with Bishnoi and his gang but the move backfired very strongly and to dismay of Doval and his associates and Goldy had to make disappear to a RAW safe house while Bishnoi continues his operations from Prison-based operational command post
———- Ajit Kumar Doval during his days at Intelligence Bureau, in connivance with the then RAW’s number 2 B. Raman, created fake Sikh freedom groups to malign the genuine Khalistan movement by Sikh community
———- Killings of individuals of different genuine Khalistan movement leaders, organizing of mega terror operations like hijacking of passenger plane were executed through such fake Sikh freedom fighters who were actually recruited in government
———- Doval-B Raman nexus also created facetious Sikh spiritual leaders and cults like Dera Sacha Sauda and its head Gurmeet Ram Rahim to create clashes amongst Sikhs and to confuse the Sikh youth
———- Investigation shows that just like Lawrence Bishnoi, despite being sentenced for a number of high-profile crimes, Sacha Sauda leader continues to enjoy official protocols free movement at will
By Makhdoom Babar
(Head of Investigations)
(With inputs from Christina Palmer, Anjali Sharma and Bhopinder Singh Dhillon in New Delhi (Additional reporting by John Nelson, Cherry Ferguson , Pamela Alderman , Guru Mahadev, Pryanika Joshi, and Shagufta Bhat)
Following new evidence gathered by U.S. and Canadian authorities indicating the Indian government’s direct involvement in murder and conspiracies to murder citizens on Canadian and American soil—and with the Five Eyes member states supporting Canada’s stance—the Modi government appears to be positioning some officials as scapegoats. Sources reveal that India may be sacrificing certain functionaries to deflect a larger accusation of state-sponsored terrorism and global terror financing, especially as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is already investigating India’s role in these activities, according to ongoing investigations by The Daily Mail’s Investigation Cell.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that, a few days ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, participated in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa regarding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) investigation into violent criminal activities in Canada linked to India. Trudeau announced that the Canadian government had obtained “clear and compelling evidence” that Indian government agents were engaging in activities that posed a serious public safety threat. He explained that these activities included covert intelligence-gathering, coercive actions, targeting of South Asian Canadians, and involvement in more than a dozen incidents of violence, including murder. “This is unacceptable,” he said, asserting that India had made a grave error by undertaking criminal operations on Canadian soil.
Earlier, in a separate news conference, the RCMP stated that India had conducted a broad campaign against Indian dissidents in Canada, involving homicides, extortion, and collaboration with organized crime to intimidate the South Asian community and interfere with democratic processes. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brigitte Gauvin noted that “organized crime elements,” specifically “the Bishnoi group,” were believed to be connected to agents of the Indian government.
These investigations indicate that when Indian government was asked by the Canadian government to advise its diplomats including the Indian High Commissioner in Canada to cooperate in probe, however, India refused to do so compelling the Canadians to the expel the undercover intelligence operatives of New Delhi working under the garb of diplomats. Canada’s Foreign Ministry said: “The decision to expel these individuals was made with great consideration and only after the RCMP gathered ample, clear and concrete evidence which identified six individuals as persons of interest in the Nijjar case”.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said the government had requested India to remove the diplomatic immunity of six diplomats so that the Canadian investigative agencies could question them regarding the allegations of criminal activity. But since India did not co-operate, it had to expel the diplomats. “We’re not seeking diplomatic confrontation with India,” she said. “But we will not sit quietly as agents of any country are linked to efforts to threaten, harass or even kill Canadians.”
The Daily Mail’s investigations further indicate that Canada’s partners in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the US, the UK, Australia and NZ – have backed Ottawa’s investigation about an alleged link between the Indian government and the killing of Canadian citizen of Indian origin Hardeep Singh Nijjar and called on New Delhi to cooperate in the probe. These investigations indicate that Australia, NZ, the UK, and the US, which had backed Canada on the issue last year, again conveyed their support separately. The UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has officially stated that it was in touch with Canada over the ongoing investigation linked to the government of India. “We are in contact with our Canadian partners about the serious developments outlined in the independent investigations in Canada. The UK has full confidence in Canada’s judicial system. Respect for sovereignty and the rule of law is essential,” an FCDO spokesperson added that the Government of India’s cooperation with Canada’s legal process is supposed to be the right next step. In a similar development, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) also expressed serious concern about the allegations being investigated by Canada. A spokesperson for the DFAT stated that Australia had made clear its concerns about the allegations under investigation in Canada, and Canberra’s respect for Canada’s judicial process.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the killings of dissidents of Indian government by the Bishnoi gang’s hit men or those hit men, authorized to use Bishnoi Gang’s Brand name, in Canada, is not new to Canadian investigators. These investigations indicate in September 2023, just within 24 hours after Indian government named a Canada-based Sikh leader Sukhdool Singh, on its wanted list, he was killed in a shootout in Canada’s Winnipeg city while some unidentified assailants, claiming to be members of Bishnoi’s gang, claimed responsibility of this cold-blooded assassination.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that parallel to the developments in Canada, the US authorities were also digging out deep about Indian government’s direct involvement into an assassination plot to kill a US-based prominent Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. According to these investigations, the U.S. has all the reasons to claim that Indian government’s agents were involved in an attempted assassination plot in New York last year and said it had indicted an Indian national working at the behest of an unnamed Indian government official. The accusations of assassination plots against Sikh leaders in Canada and the U.S. have tested their relationship with India as they look to forge deeper ties with the country to counter China’s rising global influence.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that U.S. officials have told their Indian counterparts they want a speedy result and more accountability after their investigation into Indian involvement in a foiled murder plot. An Indian Enquiry Committee that visited Washington last week to discuss India’s own investigations after the Justice Department stated that an Indian intelligence official had directed plans to assassinate dual U.S.-Canada citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannu. “We’ve communicated really clearly that the U.S. government isn’t going to feel fully satisfied until we see that meaningful accountability takes place,” said a well placed U.S. official while talking to The Daily Mail on condition of not to be named. “We have consistently emphasized our hope that India will expedite their investigative process,” he said.
These investigations indicate that the United States had charged Vikash Yadav, described as an officer in India’s Intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing, commonly known as RAW , with directing the plot against a Sikh leader Pannu in New York City.
The US indictment says that beginning in May 2023, Yadav, described as an employee of the Indian government at the time, worked with others in India and abroad to direct a plot against Pannun. US federal investigators have uncovered direct links between the dramatis personae in the Pannun case and the Nijjar killing. The US indictment ties the attempted murder of Pannun to an Indian security official in Delhi, ‘CC1’ and notes that he shared a virtually real-time video of Nijjar’s lifeless body – soon after he was shot dead in Canada – with Nikhil Gupta. Despite that fact that India, as usual and as cunningly as always has told the US it has dismissed and arrested that official gives the latest Canadian accusations a further ring of credibility.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that in the earlier investigations where US did not disclose the identity of the RAW under diplomatic cover agent and Pannu murder plot and mentioned him as CC-1 (Co-Conspirator-I) has now emerged as a senior RAW official Vikash Yadav. These investigations reveal that Vikash Yadav, 39, who remains at large, is accused of orchestrating the plot from India with his co-conspirator, Nikhil Gupta, who has already been extradited to the US from Prague. According to FBI Director Christopher Wray the defendant conspired to retaliate against the victim “for exercising their First Amendment rights,” and reaffirmed the FBI’s commitment to disrupt such acts of transnational repression.
According to the investigations, Yadav and Gupta planned the assassination and agreed to pay a hitman $100,000. They provided personal information on the victim, including their home address and daily activities.
Yadav “used his position of authority and access to confidential information to direct the attempted assassination of an outspoken critic of the Indian government here on US soil,” according to DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
The US Justice Department says Nijjar and Pannun were associates, and said that Gupta, who was allegedly hired by Yadav, felt that after Nijjar’s killing in Canada, there was “now no need to wait” on killing Pannun.
According to The Daily Mail’s investigations, Yadav, a resident and citizen of India, directed an Indian man, Nikhil Gupta, (another detached RAW agent) around May 2023 to orchestrate the killing of Pannun. Yadav, 39, also goes by the alias Amanat. Yadav was employed by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). as a “Senior Field Officer” and he has also worked for India’s paramilitary force, the Central Reserve Police Force, as an “Assistant Commandment”.
Yadav provided his co-conspirator Gupta with details about Pannun’s home address in New York, his phone number and his day-to-day conduct. “Yadav remains at large,” a news release by the US Department of Justice said. He has not been captured and is believed to be in India. It is not known if the US has sought his extradition from India yet. On November 29, 2023, the US revealed in an indictment saying Indian resident Gupta, 53, was an associate of an Indian government agency employee identified only as “CC-1”. With the new indictment, CC-1 is now revealed to be Yadav. It alleged that Yadav directed the murder plan from India and recruited Gupta in May 2023 for the job. Gupta was directed to hire a hitman to murder Pannun. Gupta ended up hiring a man who, unbeknown to him, was an undercover law enforcement officer working for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Gupta agreed to pay the hitman $100,000, giving him an advance of $15,000 in cash in Manhattan around June 9, 2023. This was a deal Yadav agreed to. On June 18, 2023, masked gunmen murdered Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside a Sikh temple in Canada’s British Columbia. The Thursday indictment describes Nijjar as an associate of Pannun. It further adds that Yadav sent Gupta a video of Nijjar’s “bloody body”. Gupta told the undercover DEA officer that Nijjar “was also the target” and “we have so many targets.” Yadav, the investigations further indicate, instructed Gupta that the murder of Pannun should not take place on the same day as the state visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US on June 20, 2023, or the days leading up to it. Gupta was arrested by Czech authorities on June 30, 2023. In June this year, Gupta was extradited to the US, where he pleaded “not guilty”, in a New York court, of involvement in the murder-for-hire plot. However, the investigations indicate that it was Gupta who made spine chilling facts to the Investigators during the course of interrogations which led to the facts about Yadav and even Indian NSA Ajit Doval. On the other side, in his statement, Pannun has claimed that Yadav “is a mid-tier soldier” who was instructed by Ajit Doval ( India’s National Security Advisor) and RAW Chief Samant Goel to murder him “as part of Modi regime’s policy to violently suppress the Khalistan Referendum campaign which aims secession of Punjab from India through democratic means”. Pannun has also filed a lawsuit against the Indian government as well as National Security Advisor Doval, RAW chief Goel, Yadav and Gupta. They were all summoned to a US district court for the southern district of New York. The Indian foreign ministry rejected the allegations against Doval and Goel. While Indian PM Modi and other Indian officials visited New York for the United Nations General Assembly between September 20 to September 27, Doval fearing arrest and interrogation dropped out of the visit and stayed back in India. In the meanwhile, Doval managed to convey secret links between Bishnoi and his gang with the Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah who being virtue of be MHA commands the Intelligence Bureau that has been jointly harboring Bishnoi and his gang with RAW for years.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that it was only after this development that last week Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) revealed “clear and compelling evidence” that Indian government agents had plotted Nijjar’s assassination. Trudeau and the RCMP subsequently accused the Indian government of hiring hitmen from a notorious Indian gang, run by a jailed mobster known as Lawrence Bishnoi, to kill Sikh dissidents in the Canadian Diaspora.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that Doval had convinced Modi to throw a few heads under the bus to save national image and for Amit Shah, Doval convinced Modi that Shah was becoming a big political threat for Modi himself and that he was paving the way within the party to be the Party President and next Indian Prime Ministerial candidate after which Modi left the matter to Doval and departed for the US visit.
The U.S. indictment against Yadav, along with remarks from Wray, Garland, and others, as well as connections drawn between Najjar’s murder and the plot against Pannun, placed significant focus on RAW agent Yadav, his accomplices, and superiors, including Doval. At this point, Doval and his team reportedly decided to discreetly reveal the Amit Shah-Intelligence Bureau-Bishnoi network to Canadian and U.S. investigators through various channels. Amit Shah, himself has an extensive record of extrajudicial killings, especially, while working as Home Minister when the Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
The Daily Mail’s investigations further indicate that RAW’s Senior Field Officer Yadav was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell in December 2023 in an unrelated kidnapping and extortion case linked to Bishnoi Gang but he was soon released on bail despite having very serious Charge sheet under IPC sections 364A (kidnapping for ransom), 307 (attempted murder) 328 (causing harm to another person using poison), 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 392 (robbery), 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property), and 120 B (criminal conspiracy). Yadav was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a businessman living in Delhi’s Rohini area and demanding money in the name of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. According to the Police report (FIR), Yadav pushed the victim into a car and demanded money, forcing him to sign a blank cheque before dropping him near his car. They also threatened him not to tell anybody about the incident.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that like gangster Chhota Rajan whom Indian media and intelligence have been glamorizing as “Patriotic Don” and also admitted that Gangster and his gang being joint asset of RAW and IB, Bishnoi is also being portrayed and glamorized by Indian Media, Police and Hindutva zealots belonging to BJP-RSS as the “Hindu Don”. He is thereby being given Hindutva celebration and protection. Like Chhota Rajan, Bishnoi is also enjoying Five Star Jail-based operational headquarters to call his shots all over India and across the world.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that Bishnoi was never a hardcore criminal until he landed into the trap of Intelligence Bureau of India (IB) after reaching DAV College in Chandigarh. Born in 1993, near the Pakistan border in India’s Sikh-majority Indian state of Punjab, Bishnoi’s family was well-off and owned more than 100 acres (40 hectares) of farming land in Indian Punjab’s Duttaranwali village. After high school, Bishnoi went to Chandigarh, the state’s capital, to study law. There, at DAV College, he started landing into the trap of IB’s field operators who keep tapping such lads to use them in numerous operations as per their suitability, all over India and specially in border states like Punjab.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that as per their trap, IB field agents lured Bishnoi to student politics and as per plan, later got him involved into serious scuffles with rival student leaders from where he was pushed by IB agents to ventured into the criminal world, apparently to settle scores with rival student groups. In the process of the execution of IB’s plan, Bishnoi was eventually arrested over charges of arson and attempt to murder and sent to a jail in Chandigarh, where he found himself at the mercy of “certain people” (undercover IB agents) and started dancing to the tunes of IB and stepping forward day by day into the underworld and started transforming into a Crimes Specialist. According to an Indian writer Jupinderjit Singh, in Indian Punjab, it is a common phenomenon that the gangsters come from “well-off, good families”, perhaps it is merely because Indian intelligence mechanisms like RAW and IB focus much on rich and spoilt youngsters who could easily land into their trap and sinister designs. Singh says further that Bishnoi became involved in violence and extortion while studying at university in Chandigarh, but truly grew into the gangster lifestyle after his first stint in jail. “He was supposed to be kept in a separate ward, but he was openly meeting and interacting with very hardened criminals,” said Singh, including terrorists and gangsters. “When he comes out, he’s a different person.” Similarly, Gurmeet Chauhan, a senior officer in Indian Punjab’s anti-gangster task force, says that Bishnoi “runs his gang seamlessly from prison without needing to co-ordinate everything.”
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that under a well organized move, the IB operators continued to move Bishnoi from jail to jail in various parts of India, with purpose of creating a huge gang of his as the move put him into contact with prisoners steeped in India’s criminal underworld and enabled Bishnoi to very rapidly expand his network, before finally ending up with a base-station at nowhere else but at the Sabarmati prison in Gujarat state, the home constituency of Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with the BJP government in place and where both Amit and Modi have posted their most loyal cops and security officials as well as Prison controllers and Administrators.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that Bishnoi has been shuffling between prisons for more than a decade now but has still extended his crime syndicate to the national capital, New Delhi, and neighbouring states, and fought turf wars with rival gangs in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab and this move of continue to shift him from prison to prison has resulted in Bishnoi controlling a gang of 700 core members across several Indian states, with Indian Punjab police tracking some 2,500 known hideouts, used by the group’s hit-men, in that state alone while he himself has more than 30 criminal cases pending against him and still calling the shots like threatening Movie Star Salman Khan and noted politician Pappu Yadav.
Investigations indicate that Bishnoi is known to have active associates across Canada and the United States. Bishnoi’s group may have started their criminal path with small-time intimidation in student politics on a university campus in Punjab, but the gangster’s reach now extends across not only North America but “Europe and the Gulf states, and other areas with significant Punjabi diaspora communities,” says Delhi-based journalist Deepak Bhadana, who has spent the last few years investigating Bishnoi’s activities for the television station News9. According to a senior Indian journalist Ajay Mehta who is also member of a New Delhi-based think tank, the fact that Lawrence Bishnoi, who is being held in Ahmedabad jail under a Union Home Ministry order that doesn’t even allow police officers in other states to easily interrogate him despite his involvement in cases in their domain, suggests a great degree of official indulgence towards the ‘nationalist’ gangster.
Recent events have stoked fears that Bishnoi’s gang has its sights on grabbing control of Mumbai’s criminal underworld, which could lead to more violence. Indian media reports on the politician’s murder stated that Mumbai police had requested several times that Bishnoi be transferred from his Gujarat jail to one in Maharashtra state, where he could answer to new allegations — but that the applications for a move had been denied by India’s Home Affairs Ministry while Amit Shah is the Minister for Home Affairs.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that though Bishnoi was tapped, recruited and groomed by IB, yet he later became a joint asset of IB and RAW after Ajit Doval took over as Indian NSA. It is pertinent to mention here that Indian NSA Ajit Doval, a former police officer of IPS cadre has remained in the IB for a fairly long time and also headed the agency. After becoming NSA, Doval is authorized to look into the matters of both RAW and IB and also to seek operational reports and give direct order to the heads of these agencies and that is why it is not clear if the IB has been operating on his direct orders or by the orders of their Minister In Charge Amit Shah for using Bishnoi and his gang for killings both in India and also in Canada and US. But one thing is for sure that there was a clear involvement evidences of Home Affairs Ministry, secured by Doval which he has now leaked to foreigners to save his own skin and to get rid of Amit Shah, who according to some Indian journalists, is not very fond of Doval and his being NSA and that too for 3 consecutive terms.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that despite Chhota Rajan and Bishnoi, RAW and IB had yet another joint asset and that was Satinderjeet Singh a.k.a Goldy Brar. To know why and how IB and RAW enjoy joint assets one has to understand that firstly both RAW and IB come jointly under the purview of office of the National Security Advisor and secondly both need joint assets to supplements each other’s internal and external operations, authorized and also unauthorized ones. Now if IB, for its internal operations need services of gangsters like Rajan and Bishnoi there RAW need them for their operations in external matters and in other countries and thus these agencies help these handpicked and groomed gangsters to establish their networks both home and abroad with financial and tactical support. If Bishnoi was tapped by IB for operations in India, there his gang’s services or at least its brand name was required by RAW for operations on foreign soils. The RAW operators like CC-1 of Vikash Yadev in Pnnun case often use petty criminals in local areas for getting jobs done and tasks achieved for small amounts of money and also allow them to use use brand names like Bishnoi or Rajan gang, sometimes to add credence to the brand names of these gangsters and some other times to divert the local authorities from the actual fact.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that Goldy Brar was tapped by IB first and later his services were also shared by RAW. His job was to tap the youth of Sikh Diaspora in Canada and the US to tighten the noose around the Khalistan movement and to have a comprehensive data management of the young Canadian Sikhs in particular He was sent to Canada by RAW under the garb of a Student in 2017 ( another investigative reports on how RAW send its operators/ gangsters in the guise of students to different countries will be published soon). Goldy, soon became a strong gangster in Canada and instead of only focusing on RAW assignments, he started running trafficking in narcotics and extortion network on his own, using funds from RAW, a move which was not much liked neither by RAW nor by IB. however, after some snagging by his RAW bosses, Goldy started to deliver for RAW and IB until with more focus until his services were ordered to be used jointly with Bishnoi . This time the target was another Canadian Sikh of Indian origin, Sidhu Moosewala.
Different media reports indicate that the Indian authorities, due to the revolutionary nature of his songs and due to traditional rivalry for expressive Sikhs, Indian intelligence started doubting him to be member of pro-Khalistan Sikhs and thus started considering him an anti-national element. By 2022 Sidhu had become intolerable due to his constantly growing popularity through revolutionary songs as a constantly rising rap singer. It was decided by NSA’s office to eliminate Moosewala and both IB and RAW were tasked for it. For the purpose Canada-based Goldy was tasked by RAW to do the job, who after a few months of assessment informed his bosses that killing Moosewala on Canadian Soil was extremely dangerous and thus he would like to do the job when targets vists India and for the purpose, he also sought local tactical support in Punjab. His bosses, without any hesitation provided him the support in form of Bishnoi and both Goldy and Bishnoi, along with their team eliminated Moosewala in May 2022. Ib perhaps found this operation to introduce Bishnoi to the bigger screen and to launch him as new Don to achieve the required results quickly and it did work too and Bishnoi came to limelight. However, the move very badly backfired for RAW as the reaction back in Canada was too unexpected and thus they had to bear the loss of Goldy and the platform he had established in Canada. Goldy was made to disappear and is on top fugitives’ list in Canada while Indian authorities also declare him a pro-Khalistani and also put him on the list of fugitive.
Very interestingly, just when the heat with Canada over Najjar’s murder went out of control and Doval leaked some links about Amit Shah- IB- and Bishnoi nexus, he also leaked info about Goldy’s location to make Goldy yet another scapegoat and in a bid to GIVE SOMETHING to the Canadians over the issue. However, the Canadians not only ignored the tip about Goldy from Indians but also opted to drop Goldy’s name from wanted list, realizing that Indians were trying to fool them and to were planning to sacrifice an irrelevant suspect for the case under investigation. But Indians on the other hand, after being ignored by Canadians in this regard, have started honking the horn of “we Informed Canadians about Goldy” on Indian media to cover up for their failed ploy.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that there are lot of similarities between the working style, operational tactics, protection provision and glorification in media between Chhota Rajan and Lawrence Bishnoi. The way Indian used to take pride in criminal operations of gangster Chhota Rajan and used to celebrate him as a Joint Raw/IB asset and a “Patriotic Don”, they are now doing the same in Bishnoi case and have started terming him as “Hindu Don” for his killings of Sikhs and Muslim politician Baba Siddique as well as issuing death threats to Muslim celebrities like movie star Salman Khan. In fact Indian media Organizations have been glamorizing him as “Patriotic Mafia Don” of India who assists India’s Intelligence agencies. Similarly, the Chhota Rajan gang used threaten and extort Indian Showbiz personalities like Hritik Roshan and Indian Business tycoons, and Bishnoi gang copycatting.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that after becoming National Security Advisor of India for the first time, brought about various changes in the operational methods of both RAW and IB and temporarily replaced Chhota Rajan with Bishnoi in India, Nikhil Gupta in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Goldy Brar in Canada while their gang members in other areas remained unchanged.
These investigations indicate that though the successive Indian governments continued to deny any links of its law enforcers or other top officials having any connection with terrorists and criminal mafias with current Modi government being no exception, yet these deep rooted links are open secrets in Indian media and society. However, in a highly classified diplomatic cable (later leaked by Wikileaks) sent by US Consulate in Mumbai on 8th August 2005, the US Mission in Mumbai confirmed this link to Washington with Ajit Doval being fully exposed in this direction.
In the cable, following assertion was made:
“In early July a group of Mumbai policemen traveled to Delhi to stake out Vicky Malhotra, an underworld figure who had been charged with numerous acts of terror and crimes, including murder, extortion explosions and arms smuggling. On July 11 the Mumbai police arrested Malhotra while he was driving through central Delhi. Accompanying Malhotra was Ajit Kumar Doval, former head of the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB. Doval himself as well as GOI officials from the Home Ministry later declined to comment about the incident. 9. (SBU) Thereafter the Indian media was rife with speculation about why the former head of India’s premier intelligence service was caught with a known underworld figure. Malhotra is the right hand man of gangster Chhota Rajan, an otherwise Most Wanted criminal by Law in India.
GOI and the Mumbai police have not commented on the incident. The arrests and the presence of former IB chief Doval are established facts. Since the authorities are not publicly talking, everything else about the incident is speculation of media outlets.”
The Daily Mail’s investigation indicate that Chhota Rajan gang’s services were first utilized by Doval at the large-scale level during the attack of extremist Hindus on Babari Masjid in Ajodhya in early 1990s. As this assault was made in the name of religion yet was carried out in a manner of organized crime, Chhota Rajan gang’s input was very much required, and Gang’s contribution brought Chhota Rajan in the very good books of Hindutva Brotherhood. From there onwards, Chhota Rajan gang’s activities got the full support and blessings of the Hindu extremist groups while it had the IB and Police blessings already. The investigations indicate that when Ajit Doval introduced Chhota Rajan to B Raman, Raman straightaway took Rajan and his under the RAW cover and handed him over a sort of ex-officio RAW wing that was code named by Raman as “Special Operations Division” while gang’s association with IB continued under Doval’s leadership at IB and later under Alok Joshi’s patronage while Joshi is now looking after the gang in his capacity of RAW Chief. Special investigative report on the overall activities of Chhota Rajan Gang would be published soon.
However it is worth mentioning here that Chhota Rajan gang delivered handsomely for both IB and RAW while its services were often rendered to Military Intelligence at different occasions under the Hindutva- Army nexus arrangements. Chhota Rajan Gang was used from the level of eliminating defiant crime rackets in Mumbai and other parts of India to the massacre of Nepal’s Royal family and then down to the level of killing of Indian Jai Dey of Mid-Day newspaper of India etc. These investigations indicate that Ajit Doval has throughout been a devil’s advocate and has been insisting in use of underworld mafia’s for intelligence operations as he believes that Underworld gangsters had more ingress in society and were more effective in penetrating into any segment of life than the intelligence agency personnel.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that after getting RAW and IB protection via blessings of Ajit Doval and B Raman and later Sanjeev Tripathi, Chhota Rajan aptly expanded the gang’s smuggling Gold and narcotics, extortion, gambling, prostitution, contract killings and other racketeering operations. Due to his links with the Shiv Sena’s ideologue late Bal Thackeray and his gang’s involvement in anti-Muslim riots in Bombay, Rajan soon came to be known as the Hindu Don in the Bombay’s underworld Rajan later managed to build up a steady business empire around the world acting as front offices for his illegal operations and thus got further promoted in the good books of Hindutva Brotherhood.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that the glamorous world of Bollywood immediately caught Ajit Doval and Sanjeev Tripathi’s attention for easy money extortion from the heroes, heroines, producers, directors and distributors etc., who personify virtues on screen and in real life are an amalgamation of deceit, treachery, conspiracy and temerity. RAW and IB, meaning Tripthi and Doval, for quite some time, had their eyes on the Indian film industry for various reasons. With Rajan’s coming to the scene Indian film industry soon become IB and RAW’s interest in Bollywood got new dimensions. It remains a fact that the film media serves as the best possible propaganda tool for the RAW as well as Hindutva Brotherhood not only in India but also abroad including Pakistan. A blatant glorification of Hinduism and an utterly distorted fanatic portrayal of Islam is the common message conveyed through the RAW and IB sponsored movies.
According to Pahlaj Nehlani, a former President of Film Producers Association of India, the underworld lord (Chhota Rajan) started demanding overseas rights of all good movies without paying a penny in late 90s In words of a Bollywood entertainment reporter Priya Bhose, “Top movies stars of the 90s including Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Sharof, Govinda, Mithun Chakaraborty, Johnny Lever, Juhi Chawala, Mundakani, Manesha Koirala and many others were forced to do a number of free shows to raise funds for Chhota Rajan at Dubai, UK, USA and other countries. The entire Bollywood, at that time, had to dance to the tunes of Chhota Rajan for the annual funds raising shows at Shiv Sena’s NGO ‘Mukti’ without any charge. Those who dare to resist were left to face the music of Chhota Rajan’s mobsters. Gulshan Kumar of Super Cassettes Industries was assassinated by Chhota Rajan’s ‘enforcers’ because he refused to sell part of his music empire worth Indian rupees 400 crore to the ZEE music Company of RAW. The conspiracy was hatched when a galaxy of Indian movie starts participated in the opening ceremony of Chhota Rajan’s luxury hotel in Dubai. Rajan’s key man in Dubai Vivekt Goswani conceived the entire plan.
The Daily Mail’s investigations further reveal that the ‘Joint Product’ of Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) and its Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the right hand of, Ajit Kumar Dova, Rajendra Nikalje, widely known as Chhota Rajan in the underworld, was, around 2015, moved to Australia from Vietnam, by the orders of Ajit Doval to organize and supervise a new drug cartel at Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra etc. These investigations indicate that Chhota Rajan was stationed in Vietnam after Modi government came to power in India and Ajit Doval, the creator and mentor of Rajan became India’s NSA, by virtue of which he also became the boss of all intelligence apparatuses of India. Doval tasked Rajan to reorganize the illicit drugs and weapons network across Vietnam. These investigations indicate that the primary objective of this move was to arm, train and fund the militants in the region, especially those of Pakistan’s TTP, China’s ETIM and Uzbekistan’s IMU and to use them to formulate a permanent supply market of a new drug that Doval was planning to bring to the region from Latin America.
However, after the activities of Rajan Gang in Vietnam, reached the desks of international media and also to the Chinese authorities with Chinese Public Security Minister visiting Vietnam in March/April 2015 and urging the Vietnamese authorities politely to take serious notice of such activities, Doval directed Rajan to relocate in Australia and establish his base over there. It was a time when I new government was formed in Australia after the elections and the Australian Prime Minister Turnbull was being lured and pressurized both, to rejoin the Quad alliance.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that Chhota Rajan was suffering from some Kidney related health issues and is using the Indian Ayurvedic (homeopathic) medicines from a particular Ayurvedic Doctor of Mumbai’s Shree Vishwanarayani Ayurvediya Chikitsalaya & Panchakarma Center , he requested to visit India for the Ayovedic treatment to his illness from the same doctor. However, Doval did not allow him and instead directed him to see some top Medical Practitioners in Australia instead and Doval did not want to take the risk of Rajan being seen in India by anyone, especially by Media.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that upon this, Rajan shifted to Sydney and started reorganizing RAW’s already established rough underworld network across Australia that reaches up to South Africa as well but had a very strong resistance by some Mexican rivals in the market who had assumed a monopoly by then. The investigations indicate that this rivalry transformed into mafia gang wars and a couple of such incidents alerted the local concerned authorities in Australia. Well placed official sources at Canberra, on conditions of anonymity, told The Daily Mail that in around 2015, they were aware of the presence of an Indian Underworld mafia gangster and his gang, supported by Indian government in Australia who also enjoyed sort of blessings from the Indian diplomatic Missions in Australia and had gone activated after no activity or very low-profile movement for the past 5 to 7 years. They also confirmed the news about the confrontation between this Indian gang and some other gangsters from Latin America and Mexico. However, these sources refused to give the names of the suspected gangsters and their gangs but said that they were very closely monitoring their activities and are tightening the noose around them to turn them in on the basis of solid evidence.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that roughly around October 2015, when RAW underworld Network under the cover of Rajan Gang was over exposed and the Australian authorities launched a hot pursuit against the network, Chhota Rajan was arrested by Indonesian authorities on lead from Australian authorities as he was arrested upon arrival at Indonesia’s Bali Island upon arrival from Australia.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that this was the time when Doval decided to take a break from Rajan and appointed Bishnoi responsible for Canada and Latin America and US, with direct agency officials like Vikash Yadav to be their supervisors, Nikhil Gupta, the head of Eastern Europe and Central Asia operations, as replacement of Rajan as head of RAW cover of underworld gang.
The Daily Mail’s investigations further indicate that the Najaar or Pannun episodes are are not something surprising for Sikhs as the brutalities of successive Indian governments against Sikhs have been in place sine the decade of 1980s as RAW always had a typical Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to frame Pakistan in different crimes of international nature. In Pakistan’s case, the Indian Intelligence officials first “create” evidence and later create a case to willingly evolve the case around the created evidence. It is known to everyone that back in 1980s, when Indian establishment had gone all the way out to crush the Sikhs and their indigenous movement for an independent State with the name of Khalistan, RAW made all efforts to implicate Pakistan in the Khalistan movement. That was an era when hijacking a passenger plane was deemed as the worst crime against humanity by the global community. Exploiting this global sentiment against hijacking, RAW organized a series of plane hijackings of Indian airlines through fake Sikh freedom fighters, with aim, not only generate enough anger and hatred for Khalistan movement amongst the global community but also to defame Pakistan and its intelligence agencies.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that at that point of time, an Anti-Sikh Division was formed within of RAW, under the Command of RAW’s number 2, B Raman. This Anti-Sikh Division of RAW came out with first major card on September 29, 1981 when it succeeded in getting an Air India passenger plane hijacked by the members of fabricated freedom frightener faction under the title of Dal Khalsa, from New Delhi airport and made it reach Lahore. From here India started adding fuel to its claims of Pakistan supporting the Sikh insurgency movement. Panicked Pakistani government, with General Zia-ul-Haque as the President and Army Chief of the country, however, managed to counter this RAW move very effectively and succeeded in getting all the hijacked passengers released and arrested the hijackers who were subsequently tried in Pakistani Courts according to the State laws and were sentenced and imprisoned.
However, the anti-Sikh Division of the RAW did not end here and it continued with this policy to portray Sikhs’ independence movement as a terror movement by continuously organizing sham hijackings with subsequent landings in Pakistan. After the above mentioned high jacking drama, RAW organized three hijackings with similar course of events and eventually this ploy started to fade away with global community and world’s clandestine specialists started refusing to believe in these tactics. This added to the frustration of head of RAW’s Anti Sikh Division, B Raman and he decided to come up with some more innovative methodology to achieve the desired goals.
In the process, on 24th August, 1984, B Raman and company came up with a value added hijacking drama. This time, as they knew that Pakistani authorities had gone sick of handling these RAW organized hijackings of Indian passenger aircraft and thus would not allow any hijacked Indian plane to land on its territory, they planned something extra, something special. All arrangements were made in advance and then the drama was released for global audience.
For this particular episode, the then Chief of RAW, Rameshwar Nath Kao, on the request of the agency head of anti-Sikhs Division, exploited his special ties with certain authorities at a Middle Eastern country and with a senior intelligence official of the Arab World, who was running high end prostitution dens in different parts of UAE, comprising prostitutes of Indian origin, with the dedicated help and support of RAW, helped RAW to the maximum.
The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that in this episode, Pakistan’s ISI had done enough homework and thus had suggested the government not to entertain India in any case of a hijacking and instead let any hijacked plane go off Pakistan territory. On 24th August, 1984, another hijacked plane of India, that was the 5th in the series within just a few months, a fact that clearly indicates that such series of hijackings was not possible in any part of the world unless the authorities on the plane originating airport were not hands in gloves with hijackers, sought landing at Lahore airport. Pakistan blatantly refused permission to land to the Captain of the hijacked plane. The pilot finally requested that he was running out of the fuel and here, to save the precious human lives, Pakistan allowed the plane but only for the purpose of refueling and ordered the pilot to fly off its air space soon after the refueling is completed and it was done accordingly by the pilots and hijackers both and after the refueling, the plane left Lahore and made next landing at UAE capital of Dubai.
It was going exactly according to RAW’s plans. The hijacked plane landed at Dubai and the passengers were released by the hijackers while the hijackers were turned in by the UAE’s security officials . RAW, as planned, later with the help of the above mentioned influential Arab Intelligence official, managed to grab hijackers back to India which was in utter violation of international laws that say that the hijackers could only be detained and tried by the country where they are arrested.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that these incidents in the early 80s were just the start of Indian conspiracies and brutalities against Sikhs, who had started demanding right to have their independent Identity as a Sikh nation through and Independent State. It even did not culminated at the main flashpoint of Indian Forces’ storming the most sacred Sikh Temple of Amrtisar, the Golden Temple where main Kahlistan leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was martyred along with hundreds of his fellow Sikhs under a mega operation titled “Operation Blue Star”.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that despite the fact that every head of the elected state governments in Indian Punjab since 1966 has been a Sikh and that Sikhs play an extraordinary role in the military, police, and transport, in addition to agriculture and clearly are one of India’s fastest developing and leading communities, the Sikh community in India was always subjected to acute discrimination and insecurity. Amidst long-standing grievances including unresolved water-sharing arrangements with neighbouring Haryana State and the sharing with Haryana of the capital city, Chandigarh, a fear of losing Sikh culture, and the related desire for greater state powers in the face of centralized federalism and differences over religion, politics, militancy and caste factionalized the Sikh community and the Sikh political party, Akali Dal, adding to the sense of being a minority.
Experts and observers also place Sikh apprehensions within the context of the rise of Hindu nationalism paralleling that of the fundamentalist Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has raised fears among several ethnic communities in India However, it appears that Indian government’s attention mostly remained focused on those Sikhs who publicly advocate separatist views.
The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that in order to crush such Sikhs , the then Indian government appointed a very ruthless Police Officer Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (K P S Gill) to launch mega anti-Sikh campaign. Gill, it stands proven by Indian media archives and documents of global monitors like Christian Science Monitor and Amnesty International etc, unleashed heel on Sikhs, mainly youngsters. In one of his interviews with Indian newspaper India Today on 15 April, 1993 K P S Gill openly admitted of announcing an “Open Season” against Sikhs with such views and stated that he had given clear message to Sikhs that they had only one option, either to surrender or eat police bullets.
Following this policy, just within a span of 27 months, from January 1991 to March 1993, Punjab police killed a total of 4560 Sikh in police encounters, for having views for independence from Delhi’s rule.
These investigations indicate that in the meantime, Indian government not only recruited huge number low-caste mazhabis as special police officers while Jat Sikhs were heavily recruited in police force in order to cut into the rebellious Sikhs’ support and to provide accurate local knowledge about rural areas for more and more police operations.
During these operations prominent Sikh leaders were targeted, and many did not survive. Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala of the Khalistan Liberation Force, according a documented report of Amnesty International was himself killed by police in July 1992 while five other senior Sikh leaders, who later met to choose his successor were also killed by Punjab Police. Similarly, some other prominent Sikh activists, including Sukhdev Singh Babbar and M.M. Partap Singh Sabra of the Babbar Khalsa International were killed were killed in August 1992 by Punjab police, according to archives of Canadian newspaper The Toronto Star , while in February 1993 another top Sikh activist, Gurbachan Singh Manochahal, who had founded the Bhindranwale Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTFK), was killed by Punjab Police. These investigations indicate that interestingly these killed Sikh activists included at least three of those whom India had p[publicized and propagated of being in Pakistan and being protected by Pakistani Intelligence agencies. But the actual fact turned out to be that all those were finally found killed within Indian Punjab by Indian Punjab Police, a solid fact that comprehensively evaporated India’s ploy of blaming Pakistan. Some unconfirmed reports however claim that all these Sikh activists were throughout in custody of Indian authorities and there fake whereabouts were used to blame Pakistan and were eventually eliminated in fake police encounters when need expired.
