Multiple teams of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have searched 10 locations in Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi in the Neemrana hotel firing case linked to Canada-based Khalistani terrorist Arsh Dalla, who was arrested last year in connection with a shooting in Ontario.
“The attack, in which 35 shots were fired on September 8 last year all around the premises of Hotel Highway King, was aimed at terrorising and threatening people. The two attackers were subsequently identified as members of the Bambiah gang, having connections with Dalla’s terrorist-gangster network. They had used prohibited weapons and also threatened the hotel’s owner and manager for extortion money. The manager had also earlier received several threat calls from international numbers,” an NIA spokesperson said in a statement issued on Monday afternoon.
The NIA, which in December 2024 took over the case related to the firing in Rajasthan’s Neemrana, seized several electronic devices and other incriminating materials during the searches.
The spokesperson said the suspects in the case “had been involved in providing financial support and in carrying out acts of violence and terror at the behest of designated individual terrorist Arsh Dalla and his associate Dinesh Gandhi”.
According to the NIA, Dalla’s associates have been resorting to extortion through terrorist and violent acts to raise funds for banned Khalistani outfits. “Businessmen and other targets were identified by these gangsters and their aides, who would threaten and coerce the targets into paying off huge sums,” the spokesperson added.
