Centre designates Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa as terrorist under UAPA

The Union Home Ministry on Friday designated Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Landa is associated with Babbar Khalsa International, which is listed as a terrorist organisation under the Act, the government said. The 33-year-old is accused of having planned an attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in 2021.

“Landa backed by cross border agency was involved in the terror attack through shoulder mounted Rocket Propelled Grenade on the building of Punjab State Intelligence Headquarter at Mohali,” a notification by the home ministry. “...[He] has been involved in supply of Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs], arms, sophisticated weapons, explosives from across the border to various modules for carrying out terrorist activities in the Punjab,” the Centre said.

The notice also said that Landa has been named as an accused person in cases related to setting up terror modules, extortion, killings, planting improvised explosive devices, smuggling weapons and narcotics and using funds for terrorist acts in Punjab and other parts of the country.

Landa, who currently resides in Canada’s Alberta province, hails from Punjab’s Tarn Taran district.

Canada-based Babbar Khalsa's Lakhbir Singh Landa declared a terrorist by Ministry of Home Affairs. pic.twitter.com/iz2eNhpxyt— ANI (@ANI) December 30, 2023

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