Punjab Police arrest fifth man in murder case
SNOVER Singh Dhillon of Brampton, one of two men from Canada who Punjab Police have accused of involvement in the conspiracy to murder prominent international kabaddi player Sandeep Singh, alias Sandeep Nangal Ambia, of the United Kingdom, has a very controversial background that National Post’s Tom Blackwell reported this week.
Blackwell said: “In 2011, Dhillon was convicted of two separate fraud offences. In one case he posed as a credit counsellor and took $10,000 from clients’ bank accounts; in another he passed himself off as a real-estate broker and absconded with $14,000. He was also fined by regulators for acting as a real-estate and mortgage broker without the requisite licence.”
As reported by The VOICE on March 14 on our website, Sandeep Singh was shot dead by five assailants at a kabaddi match in Mallian Khurd village in Jalandhar district on March 14. Multiple bullets were pumped into his head and chest. The disturbing video of the crime went viral.
On March 19, The VOICE reported that Punjab Police announced that they had solved the case with the arrest of four men and alleged that they had identified three conspirators settled in Canada and Malaysia.
The Times of India newspaper is now (March 31) reporting from Jalandhar, Punjab, that a fifth man had been arrested in the case. SSP Satinder Singh told the media that the accused, Yadwinder Singh, had provided shelter to the killers. He had also helped them in conducting reconnaissance of the crime scene and had been present when the murder took place. He is a close relative of Simranjit Singh alias Jujhar Singh of Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, who had been arrested along with three other accused: Fateh Singh of Sangrur, Kaushal Chaudhary of Naharpur Roopa in Gurugram, and Amit Dagar of Maheshpur Palvan village in Haryana.
He said two pistols and ammunition were also recovered from him. Three Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) – Snover Dhillon, a native of Amritsar and resident of Brampton, Ontario, who is a producer and director at Canadian Sath TV and Radio Show; Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha Duneke alias Sukh Singh, a native of Duneke village, Moga, who has been a resident of Canada for the last few years; and Jagjit Singh alias Gandhi, a native of Dehlon, Ludhiana, who is a resident of Malaysia at present – have also been booked in the case as the main conspirators.
Director General of Police (DGP) V.K. Bhawra had said on March 19 that during interrogation, one of the accused, Fateh Singh, had disclosed that Snover Dhillon had formed the National Kabaddi Federation of Ontario and tried to convince different players to join his federation. However, most of the renowned players were associated with ‘major league kabaddi’ being managed by Sandeep Singh, rendering Snover’s federation unsuccessful, Fateh told police. He also admitted that he had also pressured some players to join Snover’s federation, according to Bhawra.
Dhillon is listed as one of four directors of the National Kabaddi Federation of Ontario that was incorporated just this January. According to federal records, the other three directors are Harmanjit Chahal, Satnam Chahal and Sukhwinder Mann, all of Brampton.
(The allegations against the accused have not been proven in a court and are those made by Punjab Police.)
Meanwhile, National Post’s Blackwell, who has written on Snover Dhillon several times over the years, wrote this week that in 2018 he was hiring himself out to people who wanted to win Conservative nominations. He used to gather supporters needed to win in a one-member, one-vote system.
“Leaked emails suggest that one would-be candidate paid him $22,000 for the service. He was accused of unethical methods, such as paying for memberships and bringing in members from other ridings to vote for his clients, but Dhillon denied any such wrongdoing and suggested he was the victim of racism because of his Sikh origins,” Blackwell added.
Dhillon also admitted to receiving a list of customers of Ontario’s 407 toll highway that the company reported had been taken in an internal theft, but said he was not aware of the list’s origins, Blackwell wrote.
He also noted that Dhillon at the time had a longstanding relationship at the time with Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, who resigned as Ontario Conservative leader in 2018. Brown is now one of the candidates for the federal Conservative Party leadership.
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