Five Landa Gang Shooters Arrested With Weapons

Jalandhar

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

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

The police targeted the accused after arresting 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 the 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 one .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 They were involved in arms and drug trafficking across the border, multiple heinous crimes such as murder, extortion, ransom and many other criminal activities in many districts of Punjab. »