India to seek extradition of 3 Babbar Khalsa men

Taking the bilateral cooperation against terrorism forward, New Delhi will seek extradition of three Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) extremists from US involved in two bomb blasts at Jalandhar inter-state roadways bus stand in 2006. Shishir Gupta reports. Case file

Updated on: Dec 4, 2012, 02:02:08 IST

Hindustan Times | By Shishir Gupta, New Delhi

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Taking the bilateral cooperation against terrorism forward, New Delhi will seek extradition of three Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) extremists from US involved in two bomb blasts at Jalandhar inter-state roadways bus stand in 2006.

Top government sources said India is going to seek extradition of California-based Balwinder Singh Possi, Gurnam Singh alias Neka and Gursharan Singh Cheema for bomb blast in Punjab Roadways bus in Jalandhar on April 24, 2006 in which three persons lost their lives and triggering off another bomb blast at the city inter-state bus stand on April 28, 2006.

Neka is also allegedly involved in smuggling of explosives from Pakistan with the help of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) chief Ranjit Singh Neeta.

While Possi is an original resident of Garh Shanker village in Hoshairpur district, Neka and Cheema belong to Jalandhar district.

Possi has been living in the US for more than a decade and involved in financing terror and motivating Sikh youth against India, Neka and Cheema moved to America after 2006.

All three are in the 30-40 age group.

Although US conveyed its willingness to extradite the terror trio, the Punjab Police has been asked by the ministry of external affairs to move the papers in relevant court in California.

Already the Punjab state government has been informed at the highest levels to push the Jalandhar Range police on case papers and extradition.

The extradition of the three pro-Khalistan terrorist was taken up by top home ministry officials with their American counterparts on the sidelines of India-US strategic dialogue last June with Washington assuring New Delhi that it would help extradite all those living in US and involved in terror acts against India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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