Tribune News Service
Jupinderjit Singh
Chandigarh, July 26
Police in Whistler, Canada, on Tuesday announced the arrest of five people, including Gursimran Sahota, 24, and Tanvir Khakh, 20, in the murder of gangster Meninder Dhaliwal in the British Columbia resort town of Whistler.
Police have charged Gursimran Sahota and Tanvir Khakh, both of Surrey, with first-degree murder.
Three others were arrested along with Khakh and Sahota. The extent of their involvement is still being determined. This investigation is still ongoing.
Meninder Dhaliwal and Satidera Gill were killed Sunday in the British Columbia resort town of Whistler.
The incident was reported 10 days after an eerily similar killing of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who had been acquitted of charges of bombing an Air India plane.
The last two victims were shot in broad daylight while sitting in a car in a public place like Ripudaman Malik, and like in that incident, a burning car was also found nearby, according to media reports.
Dhaliwal, along with his brother Barinder, was on a list of six men, four of them of Indian descent, released last year by the Vancouver Police Department who described them as “gangsters” who “pose a risk important to public safety.” .
Police Chief Adam Palmer warned as he released their images: “Our police intelligence leads us to believe that the individuals we have identified today may be targeted by rival gang members.”
Dhaliwal was a member of a gang known as “Brothers Keeper” (BK), while Gill was not known to be involved with gangs, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Dhaliwal’s brother was killed last year in April, the newspaper’s website said.
CTV said the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) confirmed that Dhaliwal and Gill had been targeted and that the shooting was related to an ongoing gang conflict in Columbia’s Lower Mainland region British including Vancouver.
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