NEW YORK: A 42 year old Indian has been sentenced to 15 years in jail in the US, for plotting terror attacks in India. Balwinder Singh, member of not one, but two terrorist groups, provided material support to the Khalistan movement to "intimidate" the Indian government, and harm those not in support of the groups' cause. He was sentenced to 180 months in prison, by US district judge Larry Hicks in Reno.
US attorney Daniel Bogden said, "This case is an example of multi-law enforcement agencies working together to protect the United States and our foreign allies from a terrorist act." Singh, who is an Indian citizen and a permanent US resident, had pleaded guilty in November last year. Court documents suggest that Singh conspired with others to support terrorist attacks in India, between September and December 2013. In October, the same year, he and others agreed that one of them would travel to India and carry out a terror attack "likely an assassination or maiming an Indian government official."
In November 2013, Singh purchased two sets of night vision goggles and a laptop and supplied them to a co-conspirator. The co-conspirator attempted to board a flight from the San Francisco International Airport to Bangkok in December 2013 but law enforcement prevented him. After these events, Singh continued to plan the terror attack in India until Singh’s arrest in December 2013.
