The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 13, filed a supplementary chargesheet before the Special NIA Court in New Delhi against three arms suppliers – Ashish Kumar, Javed and Arshad Ali alias Munshi, all residents of Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh, in a case (RC27/2017/NIA/DLI dated 10.12.2017) related to the killing of Amit Sharma, President of an organisation called Sri Hindu Takht by two armed assailants on January 14, 2017, says NIA. The killing of Amit Sharma was a part of an organised conspiracy hatched by terrorist outfit Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF). According to NIA, this murder was one among eight such cases of serial killings/attempted killings that took place in Punjab in 2016-2017 with a view to create terror and communal disturbance. Earlier, NIA had filed charge-sheet, on May 14, 2018, against 15 accused persons in the case.
Investigation in the case has established that the three accused persons had facilitated the other accused persons in commission of the terrorist act i.e. killing of Amit Sharma by supplying illegal fire Arms used in the crime. They had supplied illegal arms including .32 bore pistols which, along with other weapons/fire arms, were used in target killing cases in Punjab.