Khalsa Aid International is hailed by many around the world as an unparalleled organisation, facilitating humanitarian aid in parts of the world where no other organisation dares to enter. It has been extending its wholehearted support to the ongoing misinformed farmers’ protests in India too.
At the borders of Delhi, farmers from Punjab and Haryana continue to blockade important roads, and Khalsa Aid International (KIA) is openly supporting the agitation by making many luxuries available for the farmers. From foot massagers to movable washrooms and lavatories, and daily necessities to fogging fire extinguishers – Khalsa Aid is ensuring that the farmers have been able to set up entire townships on roads leading to Delhi.
However, little is it known that the entire organisation based out of the United Kingdom is a grand fraud. In fact, Khalsa Aid was also a subject of India’s National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) probe up to 2015-2016. The case, which was registered in 2012, found that Khalsa Aid was acting as a front organisation for the terror organisation Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), and was involved in funnelling money into India for BKI operatives both on the loose and in jails, apart from also providing for their families. The NIA also found that Babbar Khalsa and its front organisation – Khalsa Aid among others were actively being supported by Pakistan.
The NIA’s summary of allegations stated, “On the allegation that Punjab based BKI operatives are receiving money from UK based BKI operatives (viz. Balbir Singh Bains, Joga Singh) and its front organizations, including but not limited to, Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare (SoPW), AkhandKirtaneeJattha (AKJ) and Khalsa Aid, to commit terrorist acts in India, with the active support of Pakistan based BKI leaders (Wadhwa Singh, Jagtar Singh Tara).” Further, the Intelligence suggested that the money is being distributed to sleeper cells, jailed terrorists and the families of the terrorists in Punjab.
The NIA investigation, however, got stonewalled due to minimal cooperation by the United Kingdom. UK authorities failed to cooperate with their Indian counterparts on the premise of BKI operatives like Bains and Joga Singh would face the death penalty in India if they were to be extradited. As such, not much progress could be made into the investigation of Khalsa Aid as well.
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Interestingly, while the NIA’s summary of the case mentions Khalsa Aid as just that, presently, the “humanitarian organisation” has come to be known by the name of ‘Khalsa Aid International’, raising doubts about the UK-based entity changing its name to evade investigations in India, and other countries too, perhaps for its fraudulent manoeuvrings. To justify the name-change, Khalsa Aid International stated on its website, “All assets and operations of Khalsa Aid have now been transferred to Khalsa Aid International; the charity Khalsa Aid is currently in the process of being closed.”
Meanwhile, a report in the Punjabi Tribune has revealed that Khalsa Aid International, on the premise of collecting funds and donations for humanitarian work across the world, is forwarding only a minuscule portion of the collections towards actually helping those in need. With a vast portion of the collections not reaching the intended beneficiaries, it has been alleged that the organisation’s CEO Ravi Singh is spending much of the amount on himself. The same was revealed by Ajmer Singh Randhawa on a personal blog, which went to great lengths to expose the Khalsa Aid poster boy as an exploitative crook. Randhawa also revealed that against collections of Rs 7 crore at the disposal of KAI, only Rs 35 lakhs were spent on helping the families of “Sikh Dharmi Fauzis and martyrs.”
It is widely believed and has also been publicised by many that international organisation has been carrying out humanitarian work in war-torn Syria. However, the organisation itself admitted that it has no operations in Syria. The Wikipedia page of Khalsa Aid International also claims that the organisation has worked in Syria, although it was forced to admit that it never set a foot in the West Asian country. Additionally, while Khalsa Aid claims to have worked in Kerala during the floods and in Bangladesh as well, financial details of the organisation have no mention of any charitable work in such places.
That the founder and CEO of Khalsa Aid International – Ravi Singh is a vile Khalistani and a Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale supporter is in itself a reason enough for the organisation to be banned in India. Already, the NIA has found Khalsa Aid to be a front organisation of Babbar Khalsa International. Complemented with the fact that the organisation also has many financial discrepancies to account for, it must be outlawed in India.