Punjab Police on Friday arrested two terrorist operatives and claimed to have busted a terror module. One of the arrested terrorists, police mentioned, was the son of the nephew of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale – the Sikh spiritual chief and political revolutionary, whose violent marketing campaign for autonomy for the state of Punjab and armed seize of the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complicated occurred. Amritsar had a lethal confrontation with the Indian Army in 1984.
An enormous cache of reside grenades, a tiffin bomb and a few pistols and ammunition have been recovered from the arrested suspects, police mentioned.
Investigators recognized the arrested males as Gurmukh Singh Brar alias GB, a resident of Hardyal Nagar, Garha, Jalandhar, who’s the son of Jasbir Singh Rode, the nephew of Jarnail Bhindranwale, and Gagandeep Singh, a resident of Gurunanak Pura in Phagwara.
Later the police additionally raided the workplace of Punjabi day by day ‘Aaj Di Awaaz’ the place Gurmukh was working as editor.
A Punjab Police press launch later mentioned that the Kapurthala police arrested Gagandeep, a resident of Phagwara, and recovered an unlawful pistol from his possession. During follow-up interrogation, Gagandeep had revealed that the pistol recovered from him was half of a bigger consignment of weapons that was despatched from throughout the border by way of drones over the previous few months. He additionally revealed that the majority of the consignment was hidden by his shut buddy, whom he had recognized as a Gurmukh Singh in Jalandhar.
“Acting on this info, the police groups instantly raided Gurmukh Singh’s home and arrested him, whereas two reside grenades, a field of detonators, RDX in two tubes, a roll of excessive explosive yellow wire, price Rs. Cash quantity was recovered. 3.75 lakh, one licensed pistol one .45 bore, 14 Indian passports, one .30 pistol and two magazines from him. The materials was additionally hidden in Gurmukh Singh’s workplace close to Jalandhar bus stand.
Thereafter the groups raided the Jalandhar Bus Stand workplace in Gurmukh and recovered 3 reside grenades, 1 tiffin bomb, 4 Glock pistol magazines and packaging foam materials from there.
Preliminary investigations carried out up to now have revealed that the consignment was carried by Pakistan’s ISI and different Pakistan-based pro-Khalistan terrorist teams, similar to ISYF, to hold out a number of terror assaults of their ongoing efforts to revive terrorism in Punjab. and disturb peace and communal concord within the state.
The Kapurthala police on Friday booked Gurmukh and Gagandeep beneath sections 13,16,17,18,18B,20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, sections 4,5 and 25 of the Explosive Substances (Amendment) Act, 2001. has been registered. of the Arms Act, 54, 59. In PS Sadar, Phagwara.
On 8 August, Amritsar (Rural) police additionally recovered an analogous trying subtle tiffin bomb from village Dalke, PS Lopoke. The tiffin bomb was fitted with RDX and had three totally different set off mechanisms – change, magnet and spring for operational flexibility.
When contacted, Jasbir Singh Rode mentioned that round 12.15 am on Friday morning, round 10-12 policemen entered his premises by leaping the boundary wall. “They knocked on the door and when I asked the reason, they said they wanted to find their place. Then I opened the door and they searched our house, went upstairs and came downstairs. He sat for a while and then told me that he was taking Gurmukh with him. They took him and later returned an hour later again with Gurmukh and told me that they would search the house again. I told him that I cannot go upstairs because of my health and will not be able to help. They went upstairs and returned with 2-3 polybags and told me that they had recovered it from Gurmukh’s room,” Rode mentioned.
“I do not know whether or not they introduced this materials with them or whether or not they have been officers of Punjab Police or National Investigation Agency (NIA), Rode claimed.
Rode mentioned that after this they raided the workplace of ‘Aj Di Awaaz’ at round 4:15 am.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
