A gurdwara president, also the owner of a construction firm, was shot dead on Monday in Canada. Indian gangsters are suspected to be behind the killing of Buta Singh Gill, who was shot near a construction site in Edmonton‘s Millwoods area. He was the owner of the firm Gill Built Homes Ltd.
According to Canada-based sources, Indian gangsters have tied up with pro-Khalistan elements in the country and are extorting funds from rich Indian-origin Canadians.
Monday’s killing comes nearly 10 months after the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Canada’s Surrey who was designated by India as a terrorist.
According to local reports on Buta Singh’s death, an alleged accused, Nik Dhaliwal, also died in the shooting spree, while another person, identified as Sarbajit Singh, a civil engineer, was in hospital with life-threatening injuries. “At around 12 pm, police located three injured males. Emergency medical services responded and determined two males – a 49-year-old and a 57-year-old – were deceased, and a 51-year-old male was seriously injured,” Edmonton police said.
Edmonton police has previously said that a criminal network in India was behind extortions targeting people of Indian-origin, mostly builders considered “affluent”. In Jan, police were investigating 27 incidents, including five extortions, 15 arsons and seven firearms offences, believed to be linked to a criminal network orchestrated from India and carried out by local accomplices. These incidents involved extortion calls over messaging apps such as WhatsApp seeking payments from C$100,000 to several millions.
According to Canada-based sources, Indian gangsters have tied up with pro-Khalistan elements in the country and are extorting funds from rich Indian-origin Canadians.
Monday’s killing comes nearly 10 months after the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Canada’s Surrey who was designated by India as a terrorist.
According to local reports on Buta Singh’s death, an alleged accused, Nik Dhaliwal, also died in the shooting spree, while another person, identified as Sarbajit Singh, a civil engineer, was in hospital with life-threatening injuries. “At around 12 pm, police located three injured males. Emergency medical services responded and determined two males – a 49-year-old and a 57-year-old – were deceased, and a 51-year-old male was seriously injured,” Edmonton police said.
Edmonton police has previously said that a criminal network in India was behind extortions targeting people of Indian-origin, mostly builders considered “affluent”. In Jan, police were investigating 27 incidents, including five extortions, 15 arsons and seven firearms offences, believed to be linked to a criminal network orchestrated from India and carried out by local accomplices. These incidents involved extortion calls over messaging apps such as WhatsApp seeking payments from C$100,000 to several millions.