Delhi Police arrest conspirator behind shooting at Kapil Sharma’s café in Canada

Dhillon alias Gurpreet Singh hails from Rajpura in Punjab and is a close member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in India.

According to the police, Shekhon, a native of Ludhiana, had provided logistical support, including vehicle and weapons, to Dhillon’s shooters who fired at the cafe. They said Shekhon was in Canada at the time of the shooting but later came back to India. “After returning to India, he was trying to rebuild the network of Goldy Dhillon’s gang in Punjab to extort businessmen and carry out shootings against other rival gangs,” a police officer said.

Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), told The Indian Express that the accused had bought the recovered China-made pistol for Rs 8 lakh from a Punjab-based gangster Sonu Khatri, who is currently in the United States. Yadav said Sonu is part of an international weapons trafficking module allegedly linked to ISI-backed handlers in Pakistan.

Last week, 10 foreign-made semi-automatic pistols, including high-end Turkiye-manufactured PX-5.7 models used exclusively by special forces, and 92 live cartridges were seized by the Crime Branch and four key operatives of this syndicate were arrested.

“During the interrogation of these four accused, they had revealed the name of Shekhon,” Yadav said, adding, “Following this, the raids were conducted at Ludhiana and Shekhon was arrested.

Comedian Kapil Sharma’s cafe in Surrey, Canada, has been targeted three times over the past five months by a group of gangsters. Although no one was injured, Goldy Dhillon’s name has emerged in connection with two of the attacks after he allegedly claimed responsibility for the shootings through social media posts.

The most recent shooting at the cafe occurred last month. After the incident, a purported social-media post containing a video of the shooting — in which bullets can be seen striking the café’s glass window from inside a car — surfaced online.

The post, uploaded from a Facebook account under the name Kulvir Sidhu, claimed that Sidhu and Dhillon carried out the attack. It also stated that they held no animosity towards the public but warned that anyone who speaks against their religion should be prepared to be targeted.

In July last year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet in connection with an extortion and firing case in Chandigarh against Dhillon and nine other accused, including Canada-based designated terrorist Satinderjit Singh, alias Goldy Brar.

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