The NIA has arrested a suspected arms supplier from Uttar Pradesh in connection with its probe into the killing of RSS leader Ravinder Gosain in Punjab's ludhiana in October 2017.
An agency spokesperson said Parvez alias Farru, who had been on the run, was arrested last night from his house in Kotwali area in Meerut.
"Parvez was wanted in connection with supplying arms to Hardeep Singh alias Shera, one of the main accused in the cases related to targeted killings in Punjab in 2016-2017," the spokesperson said. Parvez is eleventh person to be arrested by the agency during its probe.
He said Parvez was produced before a special court in Mohali, which sent him to one-day custody of the agency today.
The weapons supplied by Parvez, he said, were "used" in several of the eight incidents committed as part of an international conspiracy with an objective to de-stabilise the law and order situation in Punjab and to revive militancy in the State.
In October last year, two unidentified people had killed Gosain, the chief of Raghunathnagar Shakha of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in ludhiana, when he was sitting outside his house.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had then said that the state would hand over the probe into this case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
In Bihar, slain CRPF jawan's family turn down cheque of Rs 5 lakh In Bihar, slain CRPF jawan's family turn down cheque of Rs 5 lakh
Ara (Bihar), Feb 14 (PTI) The family members of slain CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan, who died fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, today turned down a cheque of Rs 5 lakh from the Bihar Government, saying it was "demeaning" as Army personnel killed in such incidents get Rs 11 lakh.
The cheque was given to Khan's family in Bhojpur district's Piro Tehsil where the slain CRPF constable's body was brought this morning and the funeral held with full police honours. Khan was killed in a gunbattle with militants who had attacked the camp of the CRPF's 23rd Battalion at Karan Nagar in Srinagar.
"Khan's family has refused to accept the cheque. They are of the view that when Army personnel killed in such incidents were given Rs 11 lakh ex gratia, the substantially lower amount of ex gratia for paramilitary force jawans was demeaning", Bhojpur District Magistrate Sanjiv Kumar said.