A certain Gurdial Singh Sidhu has alleged that he had received repeated WhatsApp messages from him, asking for money
Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa has been booked by the Tarn Taran police for demanding Rs 50 lakh from a local resident.
Gurdial Singh Sidhu of Master Colony, in his complaint to the police, alleged that Landa sent him WhatsApp and voice messages from various mobile numbers from September 27 last year to March 7 this year, demanding the money.
He alleged that Landa warned him that “in case you don’t oblige your family would be eliminated”.
Landa has around 20 criminal cases, including extortion, murder, attempt to murder, firing under the NDPS Act, registered against him in various police stations across the state.
Hailing from Harike village in Tarn Taran, Landa was the mastermind in a double murder case in which two Akali workers were shot dead at Patti on May 27 last year. The Tarn Taran police had written to the Centre for issuing a red-corner notice against him.
Landa has around 20 criminal cases, including extortion, murder, attempt to murder, firing under the NDPS Act, registered against him in various police stations across the state.
He also ran an ‘arhtiya’ shop at Harike before escaping to Canada years ago after committing a number of crimes. It is his third attempt at demanding ransom from various locals in three months.
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