{"id":194694,"date":"2022-07-06T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=194694"},"modified":"2022-07-06T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:45:04","slug":"attack-on-priest-2-canada-based-ktf-operatives-among-4-charge-sheeted-by-nia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/attack-on-priest-2-canada-based-ktf-operatives-among-4-charge-sheeted-by-nia\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on priest: 2 Canada-based KTF operatives among 4 charge-sheeted by NIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against four people, including two Canada-based operatives of the proscribed Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), in connection with an attack on a Hindu priest in Punjab&#8217;s Jalandhar last year, an official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the charge sheet filed in a special NIA court in Mohali on Monday, the federal agency said the Canada-based accused had hatched a conspiracy to kill the priest to disturb peace and communal harmony in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The priest, Kamaldeep Sharma, was shot at Bhar Singh Pura village in Phillaur in Jalandhar by Kamaljeet Sharma and Ram Singh alias &#8220;Sona&#8221; on the directions of Canada-based accused Arshdeep Singh alias &#8220;Prabh&#8221; and Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The priest was seriously injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was first registered at Phillaur police station on January 31 last year and re-registered by the NIA on October 8, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official said that following a thorough investigation, all the four accused were charge-sheeted under relevant sections of laws, including the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further investigation in the case was underway, the NIA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against four people, including two Canada-based operatives of the proscribed Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), in connection with an attack on a Hindu priest in Punjab&#8217;s Jalandhar last year, an official said on Tuesday. In the charge sheet filed in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}