<p>New Delhi: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nia">National Investigation Agency</a> will probe the targeted killing of Punjab <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/vishva-hindu-parishad">Vishva Hindu Parishad</a> (VHP) leader Vikas Bagga, a senior official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The development comes following a directive from the Union home ministry in this regard, he said.</p>.VHP-led protest over police show cause notice in Keragodu Hanuman flag row.<p>"The NIA has taken over the investigation (by re-registering the Punjab Police's case) to probe the murder of Vikas Bagga," the official said.</p>.<p>Sources said the probe agency has been roped in to unravel the larger conspiracy behind Bagga's killing to spread terror in the region.</p>.<p>They said the involvement of banned terrorist outfits and their operatives based in India and abroad in the crime is also not being ruled out.</p>.<p>Bagga, who was also known as Vikas Prabhakar, was the president of the Nangal unit of the VHP.</p>.<p>He was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-borne men at his shop in Nangal town in Punjab's Rupnagar district on April 13.</p>.<p>The two assailants entered Bagga's confectionery shop located near the Rupnagar railway station and opened fire at him. They fled, local police had said. </p>
<p>New Delhi: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nia">National Investigation Agency</a> will probe the targeted killing of Punjab <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/vishva-hindu-parishad">Vishva Hindu Parishad</a> (VHP) leader Vikas Bagga, a senior official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The development comes following a directive from the Union home ministry in this regard, he said.</p>.VHP-led protest over police show cause notice in Keragodu Hanuman flag row.<p>"The NIA has taken over the investigation (by re-registering the Punjab Police's case) to probe the murder of Vikas Bagga," the official said.</p>.<p>Sources said the probe agency has been roped in to unravel the larger conspiracy behind Bagga's killing to spread terror in the region.</p>.<p>They said the involvement of banned terrorist outfits and their operatives based in India and abroad in the crime is also not being ruled out.</p>.<p>Bagga, who was also known as Vikas Prabhakar, was the president of the Nangal unit of the VHP.</p>.<p>He was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-borne men at his shop in Nangal town in Punjab's Rupnagar district on April 13.</p>.<p>The two assailants entered Bagga's confectionery shop located near the Rupnagar railway station and opened fire at him. They fled, local police had said. </p>