Warrant against head of rival Namdhari sect Thakur Dalip Singh

Mohali, June 25

The local court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mohali, issued non-bailable arrest warrant against head of rival Namdhari sect Thakur Dalip Singh on Friday.

The court of Special Judicial Magistrate Amandeep Kamboj issued non-bailable arrest warrant as the CBI submitted in the court that he was not appearing and was not disclosing his present address.

Thakur Dalip Singh has been named as an accused and is facing trial under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC; the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, Arms Act and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, along with accused Jagmohan Singh, alias Manga, of Gadaipur; Hardeep Singh of Bholath; Harbhej Singh of Sirsa and Palvinder Singh, alias Dimple, of Delhi. Palvinder is the former driver of Thakur Dalip Singh, the head of the rival faction of the Namdharis. He was arrested from Bangkok and deported to India on October 11, 2018.

The CBI investigation had pointed out that the accused, in November-December 2015, entered into a criminal conspiracy to eliminate Uday Singh, head of the Namdhari sect, and Jagtar Singh, son-in-law of sect matriarch Mata Chand Kaur, in a blast at Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan in Jalandhar to be held on December 25, 2015. — TNS