CHANDIGARH: The inter-gang rivalry and organised crime angle is now back into focus, as Canada-based Indian-origin Khalistani terrorist Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dalla has now threatened to take revenge after a purported audio clip surfaced in which gangster Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar allegedly claimed responsibility for the killing of pro-Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside a gurdwara in Surrey in 2023.
In a purported 15-minute-long video shared on separate Punjabi social media platforms, Dalla rejected Brar’s allegations and questioned the claims made against him and also allegedly claimed that gangster patronage was being offered to Punjabi singers, who were performing free shows for Goldy Brar, with gangsters taking away all the profits.
Dalla claimed that he was not with Nijjar when he was killed and said he had not met him for almost a year before the incident.
Nijjar, a wanted Khalistani terrorist, was killed outside a Surrey gurdwara in 2023, triggering one of the worst diplomatic crises between India and Canada.
While denying Goldy Brar’s claim, he also denied that Nijjar had provided him with money, shelter or weapons and rejected claims that he had been involved in any arrangement linked to Nijjar.
Dalla said he had never indulged in low-level politics and accused Brar of working at the behest of agencies and alleged that the cases involving Brar’s parents were part of a larger plan.
He also questioned why no case was registered against Brar’s parents following the killing of Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala, who was killed on May 29, 2022.
Instead, he accused Goldy Brar of operating for agencies and said the cases against his parents were part of a plan hatched by Brar himself. Earlier, Brar had levelled allegations against Dalla that the latter implicated Brar’s parents in a false case.
Dalla claimed that he was not a traitor to the community and that for each killing committed or planned by him, his father was interrogated, but he never bowed down to pressure and handed over the killers to the police.
In the video clip, he also spoke about alleged gang influence over Punjabi singers and claimed that some singers were being offered support by gangsters and were performing at events without payment, while the profits were allegedly being controlled by gang networks.
Dalla confirmed his link to the November 2020 murder of Manohar Lal, a Dera Sacha Sauda follower in Bathinda. Lal was the father of an individual accused in a 2020 sacrilege incident, and Dalla’s network claimed responsibility for the killing as revenge for past sacrilege cases.
Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dalla, a native of Moga in Punjab, was designated an individual terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in January 2023, and he is the de facto chief of the Khalistan Tiger Force, a banned terrorist organisation.
Dalla is a proclaimed offender in over 50 cases of murder, attempt to murder, extortion and terrorist acts, including terror financing. A Red Corner Notice was issued against him in May 2022. In July 2023, India had requested Canada for his provisional arrest, which was declined.