Neeta, leader of the Sikh separatist group, the Khalistan Zindabad Force, was a resident of Jammu city's Sumbal Camp area. He started his career as a small-time criminal.
The KZF has close links with the ISI, and is committed to joint action with Jammu and Kashmir terrorist groups, notably the Hizbul Mujahideen. Despite recent losses -- Neeta's second in command, Amritpal Singh Romi, was killed in an encounter in 2000 -- the KZF remains active.
Neeta's name figures in over half a dozen cases filed after bomb blasts on trains and buses running between Jammu and Pathankot between 1988 and 1999. The most recent case he has been named in was filed in October 2001, for the assassination of a deputy superintendent of police, Devinder Sharma.