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PATIALA: The National Investigating Agency (NIA), which is probing the Nirankari Bhawan terror attack at Rajasansi in Amritsar, will soon be interrogating the ISI-backed terror operative, Shabnamdeep Singh, who was arrested by the Patiala police on November 1. “It has come to light that Sikh youth with radical inclination were identified through social media posts. He was to receive Rs 10 lakh for each terror attack.The operative was in touch with member of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee Gopal Singh Chawala and Nihal Singh of the Sikhs for Justice, a New York-based group, police had found. Shabnamdeep was spotted by ISI operative Jawed Khan after for liking ‘Referendum 2020’ posts on social media.Another senior police officer, who did not wish to be named, said the Pakistani handlers had lured these youth in the name of religion and by offering them huge cash for disrupting law and order in Punjab. Police found that he had partnered with one Gursewak Singh, who was arrested recently in connection of the Rs 10 lakh Nabha petrol pump robbery, to carry out the grenade attack at a crowded place in Patiala.Police had said that Shabnamdeep was receiving instructions from Pakistan-based ISI handlers to spread terror in Punjab..