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| birth_place = [[Cheema Khurd]], [[Jalandhar district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]]
| death_date = 2 May 2012
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| death_place = [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada
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'''Ranjit Singh Cheema''' (died 2 May 2012) was a [[Vancouver]]-based Indo-Canadian [[gangster]], [[Illegal drug trade|drug trader]] and longtime under-world rival of notorious gangster and former Cheema disciple, [[Bindy Johal]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.vancouversun.com/life/hundreds+attend+funeral+gangster+ranjit+cheema+amid+strong+police+monitoring/6612682/story.html |title=Hundreds attend funeral of gangster Ranjit Cheema amid strong police monitoring |last=Bolan |first=Kim |website=www.vancouversun.com |publisher=[[Vancouver Sun]] |location=Vancouver, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025230019/http://www.vancouversun.com/life/hundreds+attend+funeral+gangster+ranjit+cheema+amid+strong+police+monitoring/6612682/story.html |archive-date=October 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=B.C. Liberal regrets supporting trafficker |url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |website=British Columbia |language=en |date=September 10, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cheema-s-history-1.1690367 |title=Cheema's history |date=May 2, 2012 |website=CBC News |publisher=[[CBC.ca]] |location=Canada }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/241011/vancouver-gangster-ranj-cheema-survived-assassination-attempts-hard-prison-time-before-murder/ |title=Vancouver gangster Ranj Cheema survived assassination attempts, hard prison time before murder: Globalnews.ca |date=May 3, 2012 |website=globalnews.ca |publisher=[[Global News]] |location=Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109151457/http://globalnews.ca/news/241011/vancouver-gangster-ranj-cheema-survived-assassination-attempts-hard-prison-time-before-murder/ |archive-date=November 9, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |title=Dhaliwal says he made a mistake: CTV News |website=bc.ctvnews.ca |publisher=[[CTV News]] |location=Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108114519/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |archive-date=November 8, 2018 |url-status=live |date=September 11, 2008 }}</ref> He was involved in organized crime for over two-decades in Vancouver and also in [[cocaine trafficking]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontosun.com/2012/05/02/bc-gangster-gunned-down-in-drive-by-hit/wcm/6609c94c-f289-4900-b212-03e2ddd7a0b6 |title=B.C. gangster gunned down in drive-by hit: Toronto Sun |date=May 3, 2012 |publisher=[[Toronto Sun]] |location=Toronto, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 }}</ref>
'''Ranjit Singh Cheema''' (2 May 2012) was a [[Vancouver]]-based Indo-Canadian [[gangster]], [[Illegal drug trade|drug trader]] and longtime under-world rival of notorious gangster and former Cheema disciple, [[Bindy Johal]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.vancouversun.com/life/hundreds+attend+funeral+gangster+ranjit+cheema+amid+strong+police+monitoring/6612682/story.html |title=Hundreds attend funeral of gangster Ranjit Cheema amid strong police monitoring |last=Bolan |first=Kim |website=www.vancouversun.com |publisher=[[Vancouver Sun]] |location=Vancouver, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025230019/http://www.vancouversun.com/life/hundreds+attend+funeral+gangster+ranjit+cheema+amid+strong+police+monitoring/6612682/story.html |archive-date=October 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=B.C. Liberal regrets supporting trafficker |url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |website=British Columbia |language=en |date=September 10, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cheema-s-history-1.1690367 |title=Cheema's history |date=May 2, 2012 |website=CBC News |publisher=[[CBC.ca]] |location=Canada }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/241011/vancouver-gangster-ranj-cheema-survived-assassination-attempts-hard-prison-time-before-murder/ |title=Vancouver gangster Ranj Cheema survived assassination attempts, hard prison time before murder: Globalnews.ca |date=May 3, 2012 |website=globalnews.ca |publisher=[[Global News]] |location=Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109151457/http://globalnews.ca/news/241011/vancouver-gangster-ranj-cheema-survived-assassination-attempts-hard-prison-time-before-murder/ |archive-date=November 9, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |title=Dhaliwal says he made a mistake: CTV News |website=bc.ctvnews.ca |publisher=[[CTV News]] |location=Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108114519/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-regrets-supporting-trafficker-1.323585 |archive-date=November 8, 2018 |url-status=live |date=September 11, 2008 }}</ref> He was involved in organized crime for over two-decades in Vancouver and also in [[cocaine trafficking]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontosun.com/2012/05/02/bc-gangster-gunned-down-in-drive-by-hit/wcm/6609c94c-f289-4900-b212-03e2ddd7a0b6 |title=B.C. gangster gunned down in drive-by hit: Toronto Sun |date=May 3, 2012 |publisher=[[Toronto Sun]] |location=Toronto, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 }}</ref>
==Early life==
Ranjit Singh Cheema was born in 1968 to a [[Jat Sikh]] family of the [[Cheema (surname)|Cheema]] clan in the small village of [[Cheema Khurd]], [[Jalandhar district]], [[Punjab]], [[India]].<ref name = "cheema"/> During his childhood, Cheema moved with his family to [[England]] and then to [[British Columbia]], arriving at the latter location in October 1978 when he was ten years old.<ref name = "letter">{{Cite web |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/92149719/Ranj-Cheema-s-Letter-to-the-Court|title=Ranj Cheema's Letter To The Court|date=August 21, 2008|website=[[Scribd]]|publisher=[[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]] |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> According to Cheema, his father Malkit was abusive and suffered from alcoholism, which is common amongst Punjabi men,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/2/16/the-hidden-problem-of-alcoholism-within-british-punjabi-communities|title=The hidden problem of alcoholism in British Punjabi communities|date=16 February 2021|publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/chandigarh/alcoholism-among-children-highest-in-punjab-finds-study-733333|title=Alcoholism among children highest in Punjab, finds study|date=23 February 2019|publisher=[[The Tribune]] |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43505784|title=The unspoken alcohol problem among UK Punjabis|date=4 April 2018|publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thewhitepunjabibride.com/post/the-unspoken-alcohol-culture-amongst-punjabi-men|title=The Unspoken Alcohol Culture Amongst Punjabi Men|date=2 July 2020 |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> and his family was poor.<ref name = "letter"/> Cheema worked with his mother in [[Fraser Valley]] berry farms during summer break from the ages of 10 to 15, following which he worked as a janitor at night while attending high school.<ref name = "letter"/> After graduating from high school in 1986, Cheema went to college, studying criminal justice while working as a bouncer and then as a truck driver.<ref name = "letter"/>
==Criminal activities==
Cheema claimed that he wanted to be a police officer but began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after being "randomly" shot in August 1995 at the Zodiac Karaoke club in [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]], [[British Columbia]].<ref name = "cheema"/> Cheema claimed that this resulted in alcohol and cocaine addiction and which led him into organized crime.<ref name = "cheema"/> However, Cheema had already been convicted of a shooting at a southwest [[Marine Drive (Greater Vancouver)|Marine Drive]] nightclub on November 19, 1993, prior to which he had no criminal record.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/97/06/c97-0692.txt|title=Ranjit Singh Cheema|date=October 31, 1997|publisher=[[British Columbia Court of Appeal]] |location=Canada |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> In the May 1995 trial of [[Bindy Johal|Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal]], who was accused of murdering gangster brothers Ranjit "Ron" Singh Dosanjh and Jimsher "Jimmy" Singh Dosanjh, Cheema was identified as an associate of Johal and a major drug distributor involved in cocaine trafficking.<ref name = "cheema"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/drug-trade-fuelled-spate-of-revenge-slayings/article4140536/|title=Drug trade fuelled spate of revenge slayings|date=November 30, 2002|publisher=[[The Globe and Mail]] |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> At the Zodiac Karaoke shooting, Cheema was with Manjinder "Robbie" Singh Kandola, a founder of the [[Independent Soldiers]] gang. Kandola would later be killed, a murder believed to be ordered by Cheema.<ref name = "cheema"/>

In 1998, the [[United States]] charged Cheema of attempting to smuggle heroin and hashish from [[Pakistan]] to [[California]] and exchange it with [[Colombia|Colombian]] gangs for cocaine. He would not be extradited for another decade as he filed numerous appeals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/04/08/2004bcsc0811internet.htm|title=United States of America v. Cheema et al|date=October 22, 2004|publisher=[[British Columbia Supreme Court]] |location=Canada |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/07/03/2007bcca0341.htm|title=United States of America v. Cheema |date=June 25, 2007|publisher=[[British Columbia Court of Appeal]] |location=Canada |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/07/06/2007bcca0624.htm|title=United States of America v. Cheema |date=November 2, 2007|publisher=[[British Columbia Court of Appeal]] |location=Canada |access-date=December 29, 2023|url-status=live }}</ref>

At a May 2000 wedding in Vancouver attended by Cheema and by then-[[premier of british columbia|premier]] [[Ujjal Dosanjh]], Cheema's bodyguard Mike Brar was killed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/guest-shot-dead-near-bc-wedding-premier-attended/article25462559/|title=Guest shot dead near B.C. wedding Premier attended |website=[[The Globe and Mail]]|publisher=[[The Globe and Mail]] |access-date=December 29, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = "cheema"/> After investigating Cheema following Brar's murder, [[Vancouver Sun]] reporter Kim Bolan found that he had not been arrested on a charge for assault in [[Burnaby]]. Cheema was then arrested but released after the complainant died.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/ranjit-cheemas-two-decades-on-vancouvers-south-slope |title=Ranjit Cheema's Two Decades on Vancouver's South Slope|date=May 2, 2012 |publisher=[[Vancouver Sun]] |location=Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2008, Cheema was finally extradited to the United States, where he pleaded guilty.<ref name = "cheema"/> MP [[Sukh Dhaliwal|Sukhminder "Sukh" Singh Dhaliwal]] faced controversy after writing to a U.S. District Court judge on official House of Commons stationery in support of Cheema.<ref>{{cite web |title=SurreyRanjit MPCheema wrotegunned letter in support of drug traffickerdown |url=http://www.canadabclocalnews.com/vancouversun/news/story149925855.html?idmobile=8dff3883-35f1-4236-be12-41f4b46f0123true |website=Canada.com |accessdate=27 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210133009/http://www.canadabclocalnews.com/vancouversun/news/story149925855.html?idmobile=8dff3883-35f1-4236-be12-41f4b46f0123true |archive-date=10 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Cheema was imprisoned in California until being released in 2012, when he returned to Vancouver and attempted to return to drug smuggling.<ref name = "cheema"/>

== Personal life and death ==
Cheema was married and had a daughter born in 2004.<ref name = "cheema"/>


== Death ==
He was killed on 2 May 2012, in a targeted drive-by shooting,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.calgaryherald.com/gallery+scenes+from+gang+ranjit+cheema+east+vancouver/6558509/story.html |title=Gallery: Scenes from a gang hit on Ranjit Cheema in East Vancouver |last=Cheema |first=Sukhminder Singh |website=www.calgaryherald.com |publisher=[[Calgary Herald]] |location=Calgary, Alberta, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214191301/http://www.calgaryherald.com/gallery+scenes+from+gang+ranjit+cheema+east+vancouver/6558509/story.html |archive-date=December 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> just three months after being released from prison for the attempted sale of 200 kilograms of heroin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vancouver gangster shot dead outside parents' home {{!}} CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-gangster-shot-dead-outside-parents-home-1.1259663#:~:text=Cheema%20was%20released%20three%20months,of%20200%20kilograms%20of%20heroin.&text=Cheema%20was%20an%20associate%20of,and%20Robbie%20Kandola%20in%202002. |website=CBC |accessdate=November 16, 2020 |date=May 2, 2012}}</ref> According to crime journalist Kim Bolan and her police sources, "Since returning from a California prison three months ago, longtime Vancouver gangster Ranjit Singh Cheema had been trying to muscle his way back into the lucrative B.C. drug trade before he was gunned down Wednesday. In the process, Cheema disrespected some of his former underlings who have moved up in the business since the 43-year-old went to jail. Some close to Cheema, as well as police sources, believe recent disputes with old associates could have led to the gangland execution of the former south slope crime boss in front of his parents' house on East 61st Avenue. "He was trying to step into his old role," one friend said. "He didn't realize that things have changed."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vancouversun.com/news/gangs/vancouver-drive-by-shooting-victim-is-high-profile-gangster-ranjit-cheema|title=Vancouver drive-by shooting victim is high-profile gangster Ranjit Cheema|work=Vancouver Sun|first=Kim|last=Bolan|date=May 2, 2012|language=en|access-date=January 6, 2020}}</ref>
He was killed on 2 May 2012, in a targeted drive-by shooting,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.calgaryherald.com/gallery+scenes+from+gang+ranjit+cheema+east+vancouver/6558509/story.html |title=Gallery: Scenes from a gang hit on Ranjit Cheema in East Vancouver |last=Cheema |first=Sukhminder Singh |website=www.calgaryherald.com |publisher=[[Calgary Herald]] |location=Calgary, Alberta, Canada |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214191301/http://www.calgaryherald.com/gallery+scenes+from+gang+ranjit+cheema+east+vancouver/6558509/story.html |archive-date=December 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> just three months after being released from prison for the attempted sale of 200 kilograms of heroin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vancouver gangster shot dead outside parents' home {{!}} CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-gangster-shot-dead-outside-parents-home-1.1259663#:~:text=Cheema%20was%20released%20three%20months,of%20200%20kilograms%20of%20heroin.&text=Cheema%20was%20an%20associate%20of,and%20Robbie%20Kandola%20in%202002. |website=CBC |accessdate=November 16, 2020 |date=May 2, 2012}}</ref> According to crime journalist Kim Bolan and her police sources, "Since returning from a California prison three months ago, longtime Vancouver gangster Ranjit Singh Cheema had been trying to muscle his way back into the lucrative B.C. drug trade before he was gunned down Wednesday. In the process, Cheema disrespected some of his former underlings who have moved up in the business since the 43-year-old went to jail. Some close to Cheema, as well as police sources, believe recent disputes with old associates could have led to the gangland execution of the former south slope crime boss in front of his parents' house on East 61st Avenue. "He was trying to step into his old role," one friend said. "He didn't realize that things have changed."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vancouversun.com/news/gangs/vancouver-drive-by-shooting-victim-is-high-profile-gangster-ranjit-cheema|title=Vancouver drive-by shooting victim is high-profile gangster Ranjit Cheema|work=Vancouver Sun|first=Kim|last=Bolan|date=May 2, 2012|language=en|access-date=January 6, 2020}}</ref>


Revision as of 07:38, 29 December 2023

Ranjit Cheema
Born
Ranjit Singh Cheema

1968
Cheema Khurd, Jalandhar district, Punjab, India
Died2 May 2012(2012-05-02) (aged 43)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cause of deathTargeted drive-by shooting
Known forDrug trader, cocaine trafficking
Children1 daughter[1]

Ranjit "Ranj" Singh Cheema (1968-2 May 2012) was a Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian gangster, drug trader and longtime under-world rival of notorious gangster and former Cheema disciple, Bindy Johal.[1][2][3][4][5] He was involved in organized crime for over two-decades in Vancouver and also in cocaine trafficking.[1][6]

Early life

Ranjit Singh Cheema was born in 1968 to a Jat Sikh family of the Cheema clan in the small village of Cheema Khurd, Jalandhar district, Punjab, India.[4] During his childhood, Cheema moved with his family to England and then to British Columbia, arriving at the latter location in October 1978 when he was ten years old.[7] According to Cheema, his father Malkit was abusive and suffered from alcoholism, which is common amongst Punjabi men,[8][9][10][11] and his family was poor.[7] Cheema worked with his mother in Fraser Valley berry farms during summer break from the ages of 10 to 15, following which he worked as a janitor at night while attending high school.[7] After graduating from high school in 1986, Cheema went to college, studying criminal justice while working as a bouncer and then as a truck driver.[7]

Criminal activities

Cheema claimed that he wanted to be a police officer but began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after being "randomly" shot in August 1995 at the Zodiac Karaoke club in Richmond, British Columbia.[4] Cheema claimed that this resulted in alcohol and cocaine addiction and which led him into organized crime.[4] However, Cheema had already been convicted of a shooting at a southwest Marine Drive nightclub on November 19, 1993, prior to which he had no criminal record.[12] In the May 1995 trial of Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal, who was accused of murdering gangster brothers Ranjit "Ron" Singh Dosanjh and Jimsher "Jimmy" Singh Dosanjh, Cheema was identified as an associate of Johal and a major drug distributor involved in cocaine trafficking.[4][13] At the Zodiac Karaoke shooting, Cheema was with Manjinder "Robbie" Singh Kandola, a founder of the Independent Soldiers gang. Kandola would later be killed, a murder believed to be ordered by Cheema.[4]

In 1998, the United States charged Cheema of attempting to smuggle heroin and hashish from Pakistan to California and exchange it with Colombian gangs for cocaine. He would not be extradited for another decade as he filed numerous appeals.[14][15][16]

At a May 2000 wedding in Vancouver attended by Cheema and by then-premier Ujjal Dosanjh, Cheema's bodyguard Mike Brar was killed.[17][4] After investigating Cheema following Brar's murder, Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan found that he had not been arrested on a charge for assault in Burnaby. Cheema was then arrested but released after the complainant died.[18]

In 2008, Cheema was finally extradited to the United States, where he pleaded guilty.[4] MP Sukhminder "Sukh" Singh Dhaliwal faced controversy after writing to a U.S. District Court judge on official House of Commons stationery in support of Cheema.[19] Cheema was imprisoned in California until being released in 2012, when he returned to Vancouver and attempted to return to drug smuggling.[4]

Personal life and death

Cheema was married and had a daughter born in 2004.[4]

He was killed on 2 May 2012, in a targeted drive-by shooting,[20] just three months after being released from prison for the attempted sale of 200 kilograms of heroin.[21] According to crime journalist Kim Bolan and her police sources, "Since returning from a California prison three months ago, longtime Vancouver gangster Ranjit Singh Cheema had been trying to muscle his way back into the lucrative B.C. drug trade before he was gunned down Wednesday. In the process, Cheema disrespected some of his former underlings who have moved up in the business since the 43-year-old went to jail. Some close to Cheema, as well as police sources, believe recent disputes with old associates could have led to the gangland execution of the former south slope crime boss in front of his parents' house on East 61st Avenue. "He was trying to step into his old role," one friend said. "He didn't realize that things have changed."[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Bolan, Kim. "Hundreds attend funeral of gangster Ranjit Cheema amid strong police monitoring". www.vancouversun.com. Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "B.C. Liberal regrets supporting trafficker". British Columbia. September 10, 2008.
  3. ^ "Cheema's history". CBC News. Canada: CBC.ca. May 2, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Vancouver gangster Ranj Cheema survived assassination attempts, hard prison time before murder: Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca. Canada: Global News. May 3, 2012. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  5. ^ "Dhaliwal says he made a mistake: CTV News". bc.ctvnews.ca. Canada: CTV News. September 11, 2008. Archived from the original on November 8, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  6. ^ "B.C. gangster gunned down in drive-by hit: Toronto Sun". Toronto, Canada: Toronto Sun. May 3, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "Ranj Cheema's Letter To The Court". Scribd. United States District Court for the Southern District of California. August 21, 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "The hidden problem of alcoholism in British Punjabi communities". Al Jazeera. February 16, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Alcoholism among children highest in Punjab, finds study". The Tribune. February 23, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "The unspoken alcohol problem among UK Punjabis". BBC. April 4, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "The Unspoken Alcohol Culture Amongst Punjabi Men". July 2, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Ranjit Singh Cheema". Canada: British Columbia Court of Appeal. October 31, 1997. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Drug trade fuelled spate of revenge slayings". The Globe and Mail. November 30, 2002. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "United States of America v. Cheema et al". Canada: British Columbia Supreme Court. October 22, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "United States of America v. Cheema". Canada: British Columbia Court of Appeal. June 25, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "United States of America v. Cheema". Canada: British Columbia Court of Appeal. November 2, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Guest shot dead near B.C. wedding Premier attended". The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 29, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ "Ranjit Cheema's Two Decades on Vancouver's South Slope". Canada: Vancouver Sun. May 2, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "SurreyRanjit MPCheema wrotegunned letter in support of drug traffickerdown". Canada.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  20. ^ Cheema, Sukhminder Singh. "Gallery: Scenes from a gang hit on Ranjit Cheema in East Vancouver". www.calgaryherald.com. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on December 14, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  21. ^ "Vancouver gangster shot dead outside parents' home | CBC News". CBC. May 2, 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  22. ^ Bolan, Kim (May 2, 2012). "Vancouver drive-by shooting victim is high-profile gangster Ranjit Cheema". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
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