Amritsar grenade attack: One held; Capt says act of terror

CM Capt Amarinder Singh showing to the media a photo of the person arrested in Nirankari Bhavan attack case, in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — ANI

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 21

Claiming to have cracked the Amritsar Nirankari Bhavan grenade attack case within 72 hours, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said one person has been arrested while the hunt is on for another.

“One Bikramjit Singh has been arrested and search for another accused, Avtar Singh, is on,” Amarinder told the media here.

Pakistan’s ISI very active to cause trouble in Punjab, Amarinder Singh said, adding, “The grenades were dumped from across the fence by Pakistan’s ISI. These were made by Pakistan ordnance factory.”

Ruling out any communal angle behind the attack, the CM said it was just an act of terror.

Maintaining that the state police have busted 17 terror modules since March 2017, Capt Amarinder said, “Harmeet Phd is just a tout like others of the ISI. Harmeet was said to be the handler,” Amarinder said. Harmeet alias Happy Phd is a Pakistan-based Khalistan Zindabad Force militant. Last month, the Punjab police had busted a terror module allegedly being operated by Harmeet Phd.

Three people including a preacher were killed and over 20 injured when two-motorcycle borne men threw a grenade on a religious congregation on the outskirts of Amritsar on Sunday.

Amritsar blast: Posters of Zakir Musa put up at railway station

LUDHIANA : As intelligence agencies are linking the recent Amritsar blast with Zakir Musa, chief commander of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind terror outfit, the Government Railway Police (GRP) have pasted posters of the terrorist at the railway station here. Posters have been pasted at the main entrance to platform number 1 for the notice of a maximum number of people coming to the station.

HT PHOTO■ A poster of terrorist Zakir Musa pasted at the railway station in Ludhiana on Tuesday.

Sub-inspector Inderjeet Singh, SHO, GRP, said that cops of ranks have been told to store images of the terrorist in their mobile phones. The surveillance in and around the station premises has also been increased.

Singh said that a few days ago, high alert was sounded in the state when intelligence released a letter stating the presence of members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group in the state. Musa was seen in Amritsar. “After the grenade attack in Amritsar, surveillance has been intensified. Passengers should inform the police if they suspect anything unusual,” he said.