The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Vikramjeet Singh alias Vikram Brar, a key aide of jailed notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, soon after he was deported to India from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agency said that a team of NIA had gone to UAE to facilitate this deportation and bring him back to India.

The agency said that Brar, who was involved in the sensational murder of famous Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Musewala, has been taken into custody by the NIA. Apart from targeted killings of innocent people and businessmen, he was involved in arms smuggling and extortion cases in India with the help of dreaded gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldie Brar and others.