The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will chair a multi-agency review meeting on October 5-6 to contain the Khalistani propaganda and choke their finances as also dismantle their nexus with gangsters.
Besides NIA, the chiefs of the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and Anti-Terrorist Squads of the northern States will participate in the meeting. Senior Union Home Ministry officials will also participate in the meeting.
In its continuing crackdown against the Khalistani-gangsters network in India, the meeting is aiming to evolve a strategy to effectively dismantle the Khalistani-gangsters syndicate.
In the meeting, top intelligence and security brass will brainstorm a coordinated strategy to effectively defang the Khalistani- gangster network mostly active in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.
The recent operations conducted against this nexus has revealed that the narco- terror gangsters have been involved in the smuggling of the drugs and weapons and the funds generated are being used in anti- India activities by their cadres.
On Saturday, the NIA had confiscated the house and land of the Canada-based ‘designated individual terrorist’ and head of the banned outfit “Sikhs for Justice” and its self-styled General Counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannu in Amritsar and Chandigarh.
The anti- terror probe agency’s action was a part of a crackdown on the terror and secessionist network being operated from various countries, including Canada and this is for the first time that properties of an absconding accused of NIA, have been confiscated under section the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The NIA has prepared a list of 19 Khalistanis who are carrying out anti-national activities against India while hiding in countries like Canada, UK, US and Pakistan. The agency has registered cases against the 19 accused under the Unlawful Assembly Prevention Act (UAPA) and plans to confiscate the properties of these accused.
The agencies will also review the active support provided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to the Khalistani leaders in the UK, US and Canada.
On May 17, the NIA in conjunction with the state police forces conducted mega operations and carried out raids at over 100 places in six States as part of the crackdown against narco-terror-gangster nexus, Following the operations, the NIA and State police forces arrested has arrested 30 gangsters who were allegedly associated with the Khalistani leaders settled in Pakistan, Canada and USA.
The central probe agency had registered three cases last year following inputs that terrorist outfits and their sympathisers abroad were operating as members of organized criminal gangs active in the northern States of India for targeted killings and violent criminal acts, including against RSS functionaries in Punjab and Haryana.