Punjab: Congress leader shot dead in Moga, Canada-based Khalistani terrorist takes responsibility

In a shocking incident, a local Congress leader identified as Baljinder Singh Balli was shot dead at his residence in Punjab's Moga district on Monday. It has been reported that some unknown assailants barged into the house and opened fire.

 

A CCTV footage of the incident has emerged on social media. It should be noted that Balli was the Congress block president in Ajitwal.

 

 

A Canada-based Khalistani terrorist, Arsh Dpalla, took responsibility for the murder in a detailed Facebook post.

 

 

Reports suggest that the Congress leader Baljinder Singh Balli, was getting his haircut done when he got a call from an unknown person who allegedly requested him to sign some documents. He left his home upon receiving the call assuming it to be a routine matter and and that was the time when two bike-borne assailants fired upon Balli before fleeing the scene leaving him critically injured.

 

In the CCTV camera footage of the incident, a shooter is seen barging inside the house when Balli was standing in the porch. He opened fire and Balli collapsed. An elderly man appears and tries to hold Balli but he again collapses. He was taken to the hospital but succumbed to bullet injuries, said police.

 

Balli was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment.

 

 

Hours after the incident, fugitive gangster Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dalla, also a native of Dala village but believed to be hiding in Canada, took to Facebook and claimed responsibility for the killing. In a Facebook post purportedly posted from Arsh Dalla’s account, he blamed Balli for ‘introducing him in the world of crime’ and for ‘harassing his mother’.

 

The Facebook post from Arsh Dalla’s account originally written in Punjabi can be loosely translated as, “I am responsible for the murder of Balli in Dala village because it was my own village’s politics which had made me tread this path. This man (Balli) was responsible for keeping my mother in CIA (police) custody for a week and he also got my friends arrested. He was hand in glove with police… and got my home vandalised. He destroyed my home just to gain his own afsar shaahi… My life’s aim was not to live my own life but to kill him. If we wished, we would have killed his child too but that child was nowhere at fault…. those who are sympathising with him, their homes are also not far for us…”

 

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in January this year had declared Dala a designated terrorist after it found his involvement in heinous crimes such as murder, extortion and targeted killings, besides terror activities.