Lakhbir Singh Rode: Khalistan Liberation Force Leader
Lakhbir Singh Rode was the nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a Khalistani terrorist who was killed by Indian security forces during Operation Blue Star, directed by the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Air India 182 Bombing
Babbar Khalsa International leader Talwinder Singh Parmar, apprehended by Punjab police in 1992, during a confession claimed that “Around May 1985, a functionary of the International Sikh Youth Federation came to me and introduced himself as Lakhbir Singh and asked me for help in conducting some violent activities to express the resentment of the Sikhs”.
Smuggling Arms to India
The Indian government's dossier on Lakhbir Singh claims that he was in charge of smuggling and supplying explosives and weapons to Punjab across the border in order to target VVIPs throughout India.
*Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) - an organisation prohibited in India, was led by Lakhbir Singh Rode. In addition, he was the main organiser of the Khalistan Zindabad Force cell, which was in charge of causing unrest close to the border between India and Nepal.