A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for conspiracy and providing material support to stage attacks in India.
Balwinder Singh aka. Possi, who fled India and became a permanent resident of the United States after claiming asylum will remain under supervision for his lifetime.
The prosecutors told the court that Singh was a member of pro-Khalistan organisations Babbar Khalsa International and Khalistan Zindabad Force.
He pleaded guilty in November last year to conspiracy to provide material support and resources to these organisations to carry out attacks in India.
He was charged in December 2013 with one count of conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country, one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, one count of making a false statement on an immigration document, two counts of use of an immigration document procured by fraud, and one count of unlawful production of an identification document.
“This case is an example of multi-law enforcement agencies working together to protect the United States and our foreign allies from a terrorist act,” US attorney Daniel Bogden said.
In November 2013, Singh purchased two sets of night vision goggles and a laptop and supplied them to a co-conspirator who was prevented from boarding a flight to India via Bangkok.
SBS Punjabi is aware that police in India has been seeking Balwinder’s extradition for a number of cases related to arms and explosives. Punjab Police is alleging that he was behind a bomb blast in a bus in Jalandhar in 2006 and had provided material support to carry out the act.
Balwinder was living in Reno in Nevada and the case against him was investigated by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in northern Nevada.
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