The Brief Law enforcement agencies across the U.S., Canada, and Europe executed  Operation Hard Ball,  unsealing three indictments that charge 37 defendants tied to three India-based transnational organized crime groups. The charges include the June 2023 assassination of a prominent Indian political and religious leader outside a Canadian Sikh temple, alongside widespread extortion, shootings, and large-scale international narcotics trafficking. Two of the primary defendants allegedly directed their global criminal syndicates, orchestrated political assassinations, and managed multi-continent drug networks using contraband cellphones smuggled directly into their Indian prison cells.



In a massive international sweep code-named  Operation Hard Ball,  37 operatives tied to global Indian crime syndicates have been charged across three continents, directly linking the violent network to the brazen 2023 political assassination of a prominent religious leader outside a Canadian temple.

What we know:

Three separate federal indictments unsealed in Los Angeles outline a vast network of racketeering, targeted killings, and drug smuggling. The operations were heavily orchestrated by imprisoned gangsters utilizing smuggled communication devices, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The unsealed indictments reveal a highly organized, multi-continental network where imprisoned kingpins seamlessly collaborated with international cells to execute violent plots and manage lucrative smuggling pipelines.

At the center of the conspiracy is the Bishnoi enterprise, led by 33-year-old Lawrence Bishnoi, who managed to direct a global syndicate from his Indian prison cell using smuggled contraband cellphones.

Alongside his North American lieutenant, Satinderjeet Singh (known as  Goldy Brar ), Bishnoi allegedly ordered the June 18, 2023, assassination of prominent Indian religious and political leader  H.S.N.,  who was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia-an act that contributed to Canada designating the enterprise a terrorist entity in September 2025.

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