NIA pronounces reward of Rs 15 lakh for information resulting in arrest of Canada-based gangster Lakhbir ‘Landa’
New Delhi, Feb 15
The anti-terror federal probe company NIA at this time introduced a money reward of Rs 15 lakh for data resulting in the arrest of Canada-based gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias ‘Landa’, who is needed in reference to a terror case in Punjab.
Sharing the reward discover with media a spokesperson within the NIA stated, “A money reward of Rs 15 lakh is introduced for any data resulting in arrest of Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias ‘Landa’. The id of the informer will likely be saved secret, the official added.
A resident of Tarn Taran in Punjab, Sandhu, believed to be residing in Edmonton in Alberta in Canada, has been an absconder and is needed by the NIA in a case associated to the grenade assault on the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali in 2022.
The NIA registered the case in 2022 after it emerged that terrorist outfits and terror parts primarily based overseas had been working in tandem with leaders and members of organised prison gangs working in northern states of the nation to commit focused killings and violent prison acts.
“It had emerged that the terror-gangster-drug smuggler community was additionally engaged in smuggling terrorist {hardware} akin to arms, ammunition, explosives, IEDs throughout border by a widespread inter-state community of gunrunners, unlawful arms and ammunition producers and suppliers and explosive traffickers,” the NIA spokesperson stated.
The NIA has succeeded in getting Canada-based Arsh Dalla designated as an “particular person terrorist” by the Union Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) on January 9, 2023 in a separate case.