Amritsar, August 31
The Punjab Police on Tuesday claimed to have averted likely terror attack with the arrest of a ‘highly radicalised’ suspect, Saroop Singh, from the Tarn Taran area. Police sources said the suspect had links with Gurpatwant Singh Pannu-led ‘Sikhs for Justice’, a banned radical organisation.
Foreign outfit link
- Saroop Singh is ‘linked’ to foreign-based terror groups
- His handlers arranged a consignment of two hand grenades, said the DGP
- Training videos on how to explode grenades were found in his mobile
The police recovered two China-made hand grenades, a mobile phone with two SIM cards and some documents from his bike. Saroop, a resident of Johal Dhai Wala, was allegedly linked to foreign-based terror groups. “He was held at a checkpoint on the Amritsar-Harike road along with two P-86 hand grenades,” said DGP Dinkar Gupta.
Preliminary probe suggested Saroop had come in contact with foreign-based terror handlers through the social media. They motivated him to carry out terror acts in the border state with an aim to disrupt peace and revive militancy.
“Saroop disclosed that his handlers had arranged a consignment of two hand grenades for him,” said the DGP, adding the suspect had already recced a few sensitive targets in Amritsar and Ludhiana. This is the fifth hand grenade seizure in the past one month. — TNS
Man held with grenades in Tarn Taran, cops say attack averted
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