Centre Declares Canada-Based Gangster Goldy Brar Terrorist Under UAPA

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday declared Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar as a terrorist.

Centre declared Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar as a terrorist. ( Image Source :X/@ANI )

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday declared Canada-based gangster Satwinder Singh alias Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

 

Goldy Brar, son of Shamsher Singh and Preetpal Kaur, has a permanent residence at Adesh Nagar in the Sri Muktsar Sahib city of Punjab.

Ministry of Home Affairs has declared gangster Satwinder Singh alias Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. pic.twitter.com/9Ea9R6VlQ5

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According to the statement, Brar currently resides in Brampton, Canada, and is a member of Babbar Khalsa International.

Babbar Khalsa International is listed as a terrorist organisation as per "number I of the First Schedule to the said Act," As per the MHA.

Brar was backed by the cross-border agency and was involved in multiple killings and smuggling of high-grade arms, ammunition and explosive materials through drones across the border, the MHA added.

 

Earlier on Saturday, Home Ministry had declared Canada-based Babbar Khalsa's Lakhbir Singh Landa a terrorist, news agency ANI reported.

 

The 34-year-old is also associated with Babbar Khalsa International.

 

Landa was backed by the cross-border agency and was involved in the terror attack through a shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade on the building of Punjab's State Intelligence Headquarters at Mohali, the MHA added.

He was also "involved in the supply of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), arms, sophisticated weapons, and explosives from across the border to various modules for carrying out terrorist activities in the State of Punjab, India", the MHA statement further read, as quoted by ANI.

 

Under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Mt. 1967 (37 of 1967), "Clause (a) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 35 of the said Act empowers the central government to add the name of an individual in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act if it believes that he is involved in terrorism", the MHA statement said.