Five Landa Gang Shooters Arrested With Weapons

Punjab Police on Sunday arrested five shooters of the Canada-based Lakhbir Singh Landa terror gang and recovered four illegal weapons smuggled from Pakistan from their possession.

Jalandhar Police Commissioner Swapan Sharma said the arrested accused were involved in arms and drug trafficking from across the border, as well as contract killings and multiple cases of extortion.

Police targeted the accused after the arrest of three of its members, including

Gurpreet Singh, Bhupinder Singh and Jagroop Singh on June 10.

The accused allegedly opened fire on a security guard of a private company after its owner failed to pay extortion money.

Sharma said that based on further investigations, the police arrested five more members of the Landa gang, identified as Jashanpreet Singh, Gursharan Singh, Harmanjit Singh, Gurbaj Singh and Amritpal Singh, all from Tarn Taran district.

Police said three .30 caliber pistols and a .32 caliber revolver were recovered from their possession.

“During investigation, it came to light that Jashanpreet Singh and Gursharan were working on the instructions of Lakhbir Landa and were importing arms from Pakistan, supplying arms and carrying out reconnaissance as per the instructions of Landa,” the police commissioner said .

The gang members were involved in extortion from businessmen in Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Jalandhar, he added.

Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav posted on X: “Jalandhar Police Commissioner arrests five members of Canada-based Lakhbir Landa gang in 15-day operation. They were involved in cross-border arms and drug smuggling, many heinous crimes like murder, extortion, ransom payment and many other criminal activities in many districts of Punjab.