Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa has been declared a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Lakhbir Singh Landa, son of Niranjan Singh and Parminder Kaur, is presently residing in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. He belongs to the terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International.
Babbar Khalsa International is listed as a terrorist organisation.
Lakhbir Singh Landa backed by a cross-border agency was involved in a terror attack through a shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled Grenade on the building of Punjab State Intelligence Headquarters at Mohali in 2021.
He has been involved in the supply of Improvised Explosive Devices (EDs), arms, sophisticated weapons, and explosives from across the border to various modules for carrying out terrorist activities in Punjab.
He was also involved in various criminal cases related to the raising of terror modules, extortion, killings, planting IEDs, smuggling of weapons and narcotics, and using funds or proceeds thereof for terrorist acts in Punjab and other parts of the country.
Landa and his associates have been conspiring to disrupt the peace, law and order in Punjab by carrying out targeted killings, extortions, and other anti-national activities in different parts of India.
An open-ended warrant has been issued against Landa. The government believes that he is involved in terrorism and is to be added as a terrorist.
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