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India announces Canada-primarily primarily based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa a terrorist below UAPA

Indian Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA) designated Canada-primarily primarily based gangster, 33-year-normal Lakhbir Singh Landa, a terrorist below the anti-fear Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Per Indian security agencies, Landa became as soon as alive to in a rocket assault on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in 2021, amongst other terrorist activities.

Earlier in September, India’s anti-fear Nationwide Investigation Agency (NIA) had announced a cash reward for data about five Babbar Khalsa Global (BKI) operatives, including Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias “Rinda” and Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias “Landa”.

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BKI is a Khalistani militant organisation, currently energetic within the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and Pakistan.

Indian investigators judge that Landa, at the side of others, had been engaged in recruiting new participants of the BKI by promising them financial advantages.

Who’s Lakhbir Singh Landa?

Originally from Tarn Taran in Punjab, Lakhbir Singh Landa is now reportedly residing in Alberta, Canada, having fled there in 2017, as per media reports.

A terminate affiliate of Harvinder Singh, a gangster-became-terrorist primarily primarily based in Pakistan, Landa reportedly collaborated with the educated-Khalistan terrorist organisation ‘BKI’.

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Landa faced his first swish exertion in July 2011 when he became as soon as registered for abolish below the Arms Act at Harike Pattan. Since then, he has amassed a total of 18 criminal conditions, facing charges equivalent to abolish and drug smuggling.

Before he escaped to Canada, the Punjab Police had filed the final case against Landa, charging him with kidnapping in Moga.

Per obvious media reports, Lakhbir Singh became as soon as identified as a chief conspirator within the Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) assault on the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali.

Additionally, there are suspicions that Landa played a foremost honest in plotting the advise of an improvised explosive machine (IED) under a sub-inspector’s car in Amritsar.

(With inputs from agencies)

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