Canada-based terrorist Lakhbir Singh Landa, who planned attack on Punjab police, declared as 'terrorist': 8 facts about him-
Lakhbir Singh Landa, who supervises smuggling of arms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from Pakistan to India and the mastermind behind the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack at the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali on May 9 last year, has been declared as "terrorist" by Home Ministry.
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New Delhi, Dec 30: In a significant development, the Home Ministry (MHA) declared Canada-based gangster and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) leader Lakhbir Singh Landa an "individual terrorist" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
This development comes amid the continuing strain in diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Ottawa over PM Justin Trudeau's claim earlier of Indian involvement in the killing of wanted Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil.
According to an official release by the MHA, 34-year-old Landa, son of Niranjan Singh and Parminder Kaur, has a permanent residence at VP0 Harike in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, bordering Pakistan.
Under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Mt. 1967 (37 of 1967), "Clause (a) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 35 of the said Act empowers the central government to add the name of an individual in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act if it believes that he is involved in terrorism", the MHA said in a statement on Friday.
1. Landa, who supervises smuggling of arms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from Pakistan to India, is the mastermind behind the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack at the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali on May 9 last year, and is wanted by the Punjab Police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in this regard.
"Landa was backed by the cross-border agency and was involved in the terror attack through a shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade on the building of Punjab's State Intelligence Headquarters at Mohali. He was also "involved in the supply of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), arms, sophisticated weapons, and explosives from across the border to various modules for carrying out terrorist activities in the State of Punjab, India", according to the MHA release.
2. Landa, a resident of Harike in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, is currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4. Landa and his associates have also been conspiring to disrupt peace and law and order in Punjab by carrying out targeted killings, extortions and other anti-national activities in different parts of the country, the MHA added.
"An open-ended warrant has been issued against Lakhbir Singh Landa and he is a subject of Look Out Circular No. 2144306 dated 09.06.2021. In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act," the MHA stated.
5. In August this year, the Special Court of the NIA ordered the confiscation of the property of the absconding pro-Khalistan terrorist at Kirian village in the Tarn Taran district.
6. As per the order of the NIA court under Section 33 (5) of the UA (P) Act, 1967, Landa's property in his native village was confiscated by the state. He was earlier declared a Proclaimed Offender on July 27, 2023.
7. Initially involved in criminal and gangster-related activities, Landa has been continuing his anti-India activities from Canada.
8. Landa was also closely associated with Canada-based pro-Khalistan elements (PKEs), including deceased Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun among others.
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