Lakhbir Singh Rode


Lakhbir Singh Rode is the nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and currently heads the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, which has branches in over a dozen countries in western Europe and Canada. Lakhbir is also affiliated with the Khalistan Zindabad Force. He is also known as Lakhbir Singh, Singh Lakhbir Rode, or Singh Lakhbir. He is suspected to be living in Lahore, Pakistan.
Lakhbir singh is said to be one of the main organizers of a KZF/ISYF unit at Birganj on the India-Nepal border.
In 1998, Lakhbir was arrested at Teku, near Kathmandu, Nepal, with 20 kg of RDX explosives, and apparently confessed that the RDX was given to him by a counsellor in the Pakistani Embassy in Kathmandu.
In July 2007, the investigative weekly Tehelka reported that the militant Talwinder Singh Parmar, in a confession to the Punjab police days before his death on 15 October 1992, had identified Lakhbir as the mastermind behind the Air India 182 bombing on 23 June 1985. However, this has been disputed by Canadian investigators, who say they had talked to Lakhbir and that he is unlikely to be the Mr. X who, together with Inderjit Singh Reyat, is likely to have masterminded the bombing.
Lakhbir Singh Rode is sought for trial in India. He is wanted in cases of arms smuggling, conspiracy to attack government leaders in New Delhi and spreading religious hatred in Punjab.