Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 23
Even as the Enforcement Directorate had chargesheeted five NRIs involved in the multi-crore Bhola drug case, in which it had also summoned SAD former minister Bikram Majithia, the investigation agency has been unable to question as many as 18 NRIs in the matter.
Other than Canadian NRIs Satpreet Sigh, alias Satta; Parminder Singh, alias Pindi; and Amrinder Singh, alias Laddi, with whom Majithia’s links are being reported, there were 15 other NRIs as well against whom the ED officials had wanted to start investigation but they all had managed to flee to Canada.
ED’s Deputy Director Niranjan Singh (now retired) had in 2018 even got initiated the process for extradition of these NRIs. The officer had reportedly got the details of these NRIs sent to the Canadian government seeking their deportation. The proceedings were moved through the ED headquarters in Delhi and then on via the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of External Affairs. The whole process took almost a year but nothing came out. Niranjan Singh had reportedly even sent direct summons to some NRIs after procuring their Canadian addresses. But this procedure too did not bring the desired results.
The chargesheets that the ED had submitted in the Bhola case had names of at least five NRIs, including Davinder Singh Nirwal, Money Gill, Anup Kahlon and Sukhraj. There were reports that 400 kg of ICE had been sent to Canada in a single consignment around 2013.
Enforcement Directorate yet to quiz 18 NRIs in Jagdish Bhola drug case
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