Chand enrolled in the Royal Regiment of Canada, a Toronto reserve Infantry unit, in June 2000.
[1] Briefly unemployed, the 25-year-old Chand approached Imam Aly Hindy for financial help, before finding himself a job at a local Shawarma fast food restaurant.
[2] Police originally said that he had adopted the alias Abdul Shakur, which later turned out to be the name his apartment was rented under.
As a result of preferred direct indictment by the Crown Attorney on September 24, 2007, Chand was re-arrested and charged with counseling to commit fraud over $5,000 for the benefit of a terrorist group.
[7] On 26 November 2010, Chand, age 29, was given a ten-year sentence, reduced for time served to 7 months and 10 days, in Ontario Superior Court, for his part in the terrorist plot.