The story of Ubaidullah Abdulrashid Radiowalla shows why Indian authorities have struggled to secure extraditions. The evidence is often murky, and prosecutions botched.
FBI & ICE arrested Passia in California. He allegedly illegally entered the US around 2021. Indian investigating agencies have yet to receive official notification of his arrest.
Since December, over a dozen youths from areas like Batala, Amritsar, SBS Nagar have been arrested on charges of attacking police stations & posts at the behest of banned terror outfits.
Since Anmol Bishnoi was arrested this week in US, investigators are working to unpack a complex web of crime involving trafficking of migrants, drug cartels, assassins & Sikh separatists.
Though Indian security officials confirmed Dalla’s arrest, Canadian authorities have neither sent any formal communication nor confirmed the identity of the accused so far.
Extortion calls from ganglords have become a law & order issue in Punjab. There was a spurt in such calls after Sidhu Moosewala’s killing in May 2022 & the numbers have plateaued since.
SAD (Amritsar) chief Mann has also fielded retired Punjab Police inspector Bhupinder Singh Bhullar from Ferozepur constituency. Bhupinder is the father of slain gangster Jaipal Bhullar.
Absconding gangster had alleged links to Sikh separatists and designated terrorist Arsh Dalla. Sukhdool had fled to Canada on forged documents in 2017.
Punjab police have arrested 428 gangsters & busted 111 gangs, but murders and violence continue. Opposition has guns trained on the law & order situation, police struggling.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Can prosecutors deliver justice? No. One should not expect much from poor-socialist-Indian judiciary.