Punjab police solves Nirankari Bhawan grenade blast case with 1 arrest

  • | Wednesday | 21st November, 2018

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police claimed to have traced the grenade attack on Nirankari Satsang Bhawan in Amritsar that killed three and left 15 injured to ISI-backed Khalistani forces in Pakistan. They waited in the area for the crowd to congregate at the Satsang Bhawan. After changing his clothes and appearance, Bikram drove back to his village on his black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle. They started for village Adliwal at about 9.30am and covered their faces on the way, near village Manawala. They retrieved the HE 84 hand grenade, which had been buried in a half feet deep pit under a Shisham tree.According to Bikram's initial questioning, the recee of Nirankari Satsang Bhawan was carried out on the morning of 13th November when no one was present at the premises.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police claimed to have traced the grenade attack on Nirankari Satsang Bhawan in Amritsar that killed three and left 15 injured to ISI-backed Khalistani forces in Pakistan. Police arrested one of the two accused in less than 72 hours.Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said that a suspect Bikramjit Singh (26 years) resident of Dhariwal village (PS Rajasansi) was arrested early this morning from near Loharka village.Bikram, an operative of Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), has given significant information indicating that the grenade was provided to the assailants by Harmeet Singh Happy in Pakistan.Happy alias PhD is suspected to be the Pakistan-based KLF Chief. He had earlier masterminded the conspiracy to carry out the targeted killings of RSS/Shiv Sena/DSS leaders and workers (and a Christian Pastor) in Ludhiana and Jalandhar in 2016-2017, in active collaboration with Pakistani establishment and the ISI.Punjab CM ruled out any religious motivation behind the attack and described Sunday’s attack on Nirankari Bhawan as yet another attempt by Pakistan ISI and establishment to carry out terrorist actions in Punjab to disturb the state's peace. It was in ISI’s interest to keep the border disturbed to ensure internal peace in Pakistan, said Capt Amarinder Singh.Attempts by Pakistan ISI and its establishment to forge linkages between Punjabi and Kashmiri terrorist groups is a matter of serious security concern for Punjab, said chief minister, adding that the State police was working closely with central agencies to check the spread of such forces. His government was committed to ensuring that nobody was allowed to disturb the state’s hard-earned peace and harmony, he asserted.Amarinder also pointed out that there had been only two terror attacks in the state in 2018, including the Maqsudan PS attack and Sunday’s incident, and both had been successfully solved by the police, who had also cracked all the cases of targeted killings. The sacrilege cases that had taken place in the last 18 months had also been solved.Giving details, the chief minister said that preliminary investigations and CCTV footage of the incident had led to the arrest of Bikram, who has identified his accomplice as Avtar Singh Khalsa (32 years) s/o Gurdial Singh, r/o village Chak Mishri Khan, Lopoke (Ajnala), Amritsar.Giving further details, Punjab DGP Suresh Arora said Bikram was riding a motorbike (TVS PB-18 M- 7032) at the time of his arrest. Bikram’s black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle (PB-02-BF9488), which he has used in the attack, has also been recovered.Bikramjit Singh has disclosed that Avtar Singh called him up late on the night of 3rd November and asked him to be ready for an assignment the next morning. Around 4.30 am that day, Avtar reached Bikram’s house and both set off on Bikram’s Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle to retrieve the hand grenade from an Orchard located at a distance of about 1 km on Majitha-Hariyan link road. They retrieved the HE 84 hand grenade, which had been buried in a half feet deep pit under a Shisham tree.According to Bikram's initial questioning, the recee of Nirankari Satsang Bhawan was carried out on the morning of 13th November when no one was present at the premises. During the recee, the two conspirators especially checked out the locations of CCTV cameras en route, the layout plan of the Bhawan and the distance from the main gate on the boundary wall of the Bhawan to the Satsang Bhawan building.Bikramjit has further disclosed that as decided on 16th November, Bikram reached the house of Avtar Singh at Chak Mishri Khan village on his black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle at about 9am, where they removed the number plate of the motorcycle. They started for village Adliwal at about 9.30am and covered their faces on the way, near village Manawala. They waited in the area for the crowd to congregate at the Satsang Bhawan. Both of them were armed with pistols at that time.Bikram has further revealed that while Avtar successfully slinked into the Satsang Bhawan complex through the open gate, along with the sangat which had just reached there, he himself managed to subdue and take control, at gunpoint, of the two sewadars who had been deployed at the two gate-posts of the Satsang Bhawan complex.After hurling the grenade, both of them fled on Bikram’s bike and reached Avtar’s village around 12 noon, where Avtar took back the Pistol from Bikram. After changing his clothes and appearance, Bikram drove back to his village on his black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle.

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