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The Central Bureau of Investigation announced the successful extradition of high-profile fugitive Prabhdeep Singh from Azerbaijan, marking a significant breakthrough in a major international narcotics investigation. Prabhdeep was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice. He was escorted back to India by a specialized three-member team from the Delhi Police and arrived in Delhi on 13 May. Additionally, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested fugitive Iqbal Singh alias Shera, a key conspirator in a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terror financing case at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport hours after securing his extradition from Portugal. Shera, a native of Amritsar, masterminded a Panjab-based network smuggling heroin from Pakistan and channeling the drug proceeds via hawala (informal money transfer) to HM operatives in Kashmir and Pakistan for terror activities. An NIA spokesperson said, ‘Shera had fled to Portugal in 2020 following a non-bailable warrant issued against him. An Interpol Red Notice has been active since June 2021.’ Meanwhile, 27-year-old Jashanpreet Singh, a resident of California who founded the outlaw motorcycle club Punjabi Devils in California’s Stockton area, was sentenced to five years and four months in a US federal prison on 12 May for illegally dealing in firearms and possessing a machine gun. Jashanpreet had attempted to flee to India in 2025 after the offences came to light but was arrested at San Francisco International Airport. Punjabi Devils was considered an ‘outlaw motorcycle gang’ associated with the Hells Angels—one of America’s most infamous biker organizations. Furthermore, a 23-year-old British Indian Sikh man Vickrum Digwa is facing trial for murdering an 18-year-old white British student Henry Nowak at Southampton University with a 21-inch knife. Nowak, who was a first-year accountancy and finance student, was walking home from a night out when he was stabbed to death on 3 Dec 2025. Digwa’s mother Kiran Kaur, an Indian citizen, is charged with assisting the offender by removing a weapon from the murder scene. Both deny the charges. Concurrently, a Sikh man in Canada Jaspal Singh Gill has alleged religious discrimination after he was reportedly denied the opportunity to write a police recruitment examination because he refused to remove his kirpan—the sacred article of faith worn by initiated Sikhs (earlier coverage).
Jaspal Singh Gill Photo by The Tribune
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