Wanted gangster Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Passia, who reportedly plotted 14 terrorist attacks in Punjab, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US. India’s premier anti-terror body, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), also wanted him. Earlier this year, NIA had announced a reward of 5 lakh rupees on Passia over his alleged involvement in grenade attacks on a house in Chandigarh and police stations in Punjab.

Passia, a close associate of Pakistan-based gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, has been involved in several terrorist activities in Punjab in collaboration with Pakistan’s ISI, Rinda, and the banned terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International.