A akin blast was reported adjacent Bakshiwala constabulary checkpost successful December past year. (Express Archives)
Weeks aft claiming that a car radiator had gone disconnected making a large roar extracurricular Gumtala Police Post successful Amritsar, the Punjab Police connected Tuesday called the aforesaid incidental a panic onslaught and claimed to person arrested 2 down the transgression that took spot connected January 9.
Punjab Police’s State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) Amritsar portion connected Tuesday said that they person busted a Pakistan’s ISI-backed narco-terror module being operated by USA-based Harpreet Singh alias Happy Passian and USA-based notorious cause smuggler Sarwan Bhola and arrested 2 of its members for their relation successful “lobbying hand-grenade connected Gumtala Police Post successful Amritsar”.
However, denying immoderate wrongdoing, Assistant Commissioner of Police (West) Shiv Darshan Singh had connected January 9 said that the sound was owed to a radiator detonation which was a effect of a coolant leak from a conveyance kept adjacent the constabulary post. A time later, violent organisation BKI had claimed work for the enactment connected societal media.
In a connection issued present connected Tuesday, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav said, “Some radical had hurled a manus grenade astatine Gumtala Police Post successful Amritsar Commissionerate connected January 9 this twelvemonth and violent organisation BKI had claimed work for the enactment connected societal media. Those arrested person been identified arsenic Bagga Singh of Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar successful Sirsa, Haryana, and Puskaran Singh alias Sagar of Amarkot, Amritsar. Police teams person besides recovered 1 manus grenade and 2 blase pistols on with ammunition from them.
DGP Gaurav Yadav said that investigations person revealed that arrested accused Bagga Singh is simply a comparative of Sarwan Bhola, who is the member of notorious smuggler Ranjit Singh alias Cheeta — presently lodged successful Bathinda jailhouse successful 532 kg heroin betterment case.
Sarwan Bhola is besides wanted successful 532 kg heroin betterment lawsuit and carries Rs 2 lakh reward announced by National Investigation Agency. The DGP added that Bhola, who has been operating a cause smuggling web from USA, has handed implicit his comparative Bagga and his subordinate Pushkaran to Happy Passian and Harvinder Rinda to transportation retired panic activities successful the borderline state.
In the caller spate of attacks connected constabulary posts, it is, however, not the archetypal clip that constabulary took a u-turn. A akin blast was reported adjacent Bakshiwala constabulary checkpost successful December past year. Even though constabulary denied immoderate panic space successful the incidental initially, 3 radical were aboriginal killed successful Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit for their alleged relation successful the blast.
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