Chandigarh, Oct. 27 -- A court in Ambala on Sunday remanded Lakhwinder Singh, alias Lakha, a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, to eight-days police custody, a day after he was deported from the United States and arrested at Delhi airport, police said.

Lakha, a resident of Titram village in Kaithal district, was handed over to the Special Task Force (STF), Ambala, after his arrival in Delhi on Saturday.

Inspector Parteek Kumar, in-charge of the STF Ambala unit, said, "Wanted in several criminal cases across Haryana, Punjab, and Rajasthan, Lakha was produced before a local court in Ambala and sent to eight days' police remand."

According to police, Lakha had been operating from the US since 2022 under the direction of Anmol B...