Chandigarh, 31 August: The Mohali-based Special NIA Court of the National Investigation Agency has ordered to confiscate the property of Varinder Singh Chahal, an accused named in the international drugs smuggler and terrorist network of the Khalistan Liberation Force.
The court on Thursday ordered that the 24 kanal and 14 marla property of Varinder Singh Chahal, the main accused in the 2019 heroin and drug money case in Devidaspura village, Amritsar, be attached. According to NIA officials, the investigation of the case was started on the basis of an FIR registered on May 31, 2019. In this case, a youth named Jagbir Singh Samra was caught with 500 grammes of heroin and 1.20 lakh in drug money. The names of Varinder Chahal and Harpreet Singh, alias Happy, also surfaced in the investigation. Varinder Chahal was also a close associate of Jasmeet Singh Hakimzada, an international Dubai-based drug smuggler and money launderer, and Harmeet Singh alias PhD, the self-styled head of the Pakistan-based KLF.
It is alleged that Varinder Singh Chahal, being part of the KLF Narco Terror module, was involved in collecting heroin consignments from Kashmiri drug dealers on the instructions of smugglers Hakimzada and Ph.D. On the petition of the NIA, the court of Mohali has issued orders to attach the property of Varinder Singh Chahal. The NIA will now take further action in this matter.
