Man Jailed For 15 Years in the US For Funding Khalistani Movement

Balwinder Singh provided material support and resources to terrorists for the Khalistani movement.

Forty two-year-old Balwinder Singh was sentenced to 180 months in prison on Tuesday by a US district court. (Photo Courtesy: iStock)

An Indian citizen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to support terrorist attacks in India, including assassination of an Indian government official, as part of the Khalistan movement to create an independent Sikh state.

Forty two-year-old Balwinder Singh was sentenced on Tuesday by US District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno to 180 months in prison for conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists for the movement to create the independent Sikh state, US Attorney Daniel Bogden for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C Rouse for the FBI's Las Vegas Division said.

Bogden said, Singh, a Reno resident, was a member of two terrorist groups and provided material support to “intimidate” the Indian government and to harm persons who were not supporting the terrorism groups’ cause.

“This case is an example of multi-law enforcement agencies working collaboratively together to protect the United States and our foreign allies from a terrorist act,” Bogden added.

Singh, who also went by the alias Jhaji and Baljit Singh, is a citizen of India and a permanent US resident. He had pleaded guilty in November last year.