NIA confiscates land belonging to Pak-based KLF terrorist Lakhbir Rode in Moga

The notice installed by the NIA at the site reads that one-fourth share in the land measuring 43 kanal 3 marlas belonged to Rode which was being confiscated as per the order of the NIA special court under Section 33(5) of the UA(P)A Act.

The court order dated October 5 stems from a case registered by the NIA in Delhi on October 1, 2021, which pertains to multiple charges, including Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, Sections 16, 17, 18, 18B, 20, 38 and 39 of the UA(P)A Act, 1967, Sections 21B, 27A, and 29 of the NDPS Act, 1985, and Section 120B of the IPC.

This case involves a tiffin bomb blast that occurred on September 15, 2021, around 7:57 pm, near Punjab National Bank, Jalalabad town in Fazilka district, Punjab.

The investigations revealed that Lakhbir Singh alias Rode, Pak-based self-styled chief of proscribed terrorist organisations, ISYF and KLF, masterminded the whole conspiracy.

Working in collusion with his Pakistan-based ‘masters’, Lakhbir Singh also played a key role in sending consignments of terrorist hardware, including arms, ammunition, custom-made tiffin bombs, grenades, explosives as well as drugs, to carry out terrorist acts, particularly bomb blasts, to instil fear and terror among the people of Punjab, said the NIA in a statement.

He is a ‘listed individual terrorist’, under the UA(P)A and fled to Pakistan around 1996/97. The NIA is investigating six cases against Rode for his ‘active involvement’ in terror-related activities between 2021-2023.

His criminal dossier includes armed attacks on law enforcement personnel, orchestrating IED and bomb blasts, targeted killings of members of the minority community, extortion, fundraising for terrorist operations, and instilling terror among the general populace, said the agency.

To date, a total of nine accused individuals, among them Lakhbir Singh, have been formally charged in this case.