NEW DELHI, July 18, 2005
Indian Express
NEW DELHI: An RDX consignment and several "incriminating"
documents have been recovered from Punjab at the instance
of NRI, Dilbagh Singh, a close relative of the Pakistan-based
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) head, Wadhawa Singh.
He was arrested along with an alleged human trafficking
agent at the Old Delhi railway station by the Inter-State
Cell of the Crime Branch last Thursday.
It is learnt that the police recovered 1.5 kg of
RDX buried in the ground near a small bridge some
distance away from Dilbagh's house in a Chandigarh
village. During interrogation, Dilbagh allegedly said
that Wadhawa Singh had sent the consignment to him
through a smuggler operating on the Indo-Pak border.
He told the police that for the past few years he
had been staying with his family in his village, without
coming under the scanner of the Punjab police. Dilbagh
remained in regular touch with Jagtar Singh Hawara,
BKI chief of operations in India, after he and two
other BKI militants made a dramatic escape from Burail
Jail, Chandigarh last year.
NRI Dilbagh's brother Satnam Singh, who is the son-in-law
of Wadhawa Singh and operates from Germany, directed
him to hand over a consignment of 12 kg explosives
and other ammunition to Hawara in June 2004. On the
other hand, Satnam called up Hawara and gave him a
mobile number to contact Dilbagh for the same.
Hawara collected the consignment near Gurdwara Nihang
Sahib on Amritsar-Jallandhar Road. When Hawara landed
in the police net, Dilbagh grew restless. He instructed
his wife to leave the village house immediately because
if she was caught, the police would certainly come
to know his whereabouts. For about a month, Dilbagh
kept changing hideouts, taking refuge in the houses
of relatives across Punjab.
A fortnight ago, NRI Satnam directed him to meet
Surender Singh Kanda in Jalandhar, who had been sent
to help him escape to Kenya from where he was to be
taken to Germany. Dilbagh stayed with Surender, a
Kenya-based non-resident Indian, for over 10 days
after which they came to the Capital to arrange travel
documents. However, they were arrested.
Police raided Surender's Jallandhar residence and
recovered at least four passports of different perosns
and several letterheads that he allegedly used to
endorse his candidates for visa clearance to Kenya.
They also recovered two computer floppies from which
they hope to learn more about Surender's activities.
