New Delhi: A particular courtroom in Mohali has declared Lakhbir Singh Landa, a terrorist hiding in Canada, as an absconder and ordered the confiscation of his associates’ properties. Landa is the chief of the Khalistan Zindabad Drive (KZF), a banned outfit that seeks to create a separate Sikh state in India. The courtroom issued the proclamation order in opposition to Landa after he failed to look earlier than it regardless of repeated summons.
The courtroom additionally directed the authorities to provoke the method of attaching the movable and immovable property of his accomplices, who’re dealing with expenses of sedition, conspiracy, and illegal actions. Landa was lately declared a terrorist by the Ministry of Residence Affairs underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.
In response to sources, he’s presently hiding in Canada, the place he has been working the KZF and its associates. He’s additionally accused of being concerned in a number of terror assaults and conspiracies in India, together with the 2018 grenade blast at a Nirankari gathering in Amritsar that killed three folks and injured 20 others.
Who Is Lakhbir Singh Landa?
Earlier in December, 20203, the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) designated Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa as a terrorist. In response to an official launch by the MHA, 34-year-old Landa, son of Niranjan Singh and Parminder Kaur, has a everlasting residence at VP0 Harike within the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, bordering Pakistan.
Underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act Mt. 1967 (37 of 1967), “Clause (a) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of part 35 of the mentioned Act empowers the central authorities so as to add the title of a person within the Fourth Schedule to the mentioned Act if it believes that he’s concerned in terrorism”, the MHA mentioned in a press release on Friday.
Landa presently resides in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta in Canada, and is a member of Babbar Khalsa Worldwide. In response to the MHA, Babbar Khalsa Worldwide is listed as a terrorist organisation as per “quantity I of the First Schedule to the mentioned Act.”
Landa was backed by the cross-border company and was concerned within the terror assault by way of a shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade on the constructing of Punjab’s State Intelligence Headquarters at Mohali, the MHA added.
The gangster-turned-terrorist, who has been residing in Canada since 2017, is the mastermind in a number of instances of terrorism, together with the 2022 RPG assaults on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters and the Sarhali police station in Punjab, amongst different instances of terror assaults in India, the Nationwide Investigation Company said earlier.
In August this yr, the Particular Court docket of the NIA ordered the confiscation of the property of the absconding pro-Khalistan terrorist at Kirian village within the Tarn Taran district.
