MHA Declares Canadian Gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa as a Terrorist

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 31st Dec. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared Lakhbir Singh Landa, a gangster based in Canada, as a terrorist. Lakhbir Singh Landa, the son of Niranjan Singh and Parminder Kaur, currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is linked with the terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International.

Babbar Khalsa International is recognized as a terrorist organization.

Lakhbir Singh Landa, supported by a cross-border agency, was involved in a terrorist attack on the Punjab State Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in 2021. The attack was carried out using a shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade.

Landa has been engaged in supplying improvised explosive devices (IEDs), arms, sophisticated weapons, and explosives from across the border to various modules involved in terrorist activities in Punjab.

He has also been implicated in several criminal cases, including the establishment of terror modules, extortion, killings, planting IEDs, smuggling weapons and narcotics, and using funds for terrorist acts in Punjab and other parts of the country.

Landa and his associates have been conspiring to disrupt peace, law, and order in Punjab by carrying out targeted killings, extortions, and other anti-national activities in different regions of India.

An open-ended warrant has been issued for Landa’s arrest. The government said that he is involved in terrorism and should be designated as a terrorist.