TARN TARAN: Police claims to have thwarted a possible attack after the arrest of one person Saroop Singh and recovery of 2 live Chinese-made P-86 mark hand grenades from his possession on Monday.
Singh, a resident of Johal Dhai Wala village in Tarn Taran district , was arrested from a checkpoint at Amritsar-Harike road.
In an official statement issued on Tuesday, director general of police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta informed that during preliminary investigations, Saroop Singh had revealed that he came in contact with foreign based terror handlers over the social media who cultivated and motivated to carry out terror attacks in Punjab.
Saroop further disclosed that his foreign based handlers had arranged a consignment of 2 hand grenades for him, said the DGP adding that Saroop had already conducted recce of a few sensitive targets in Amritsar and Ludhiana. “A training video sent by his foreign handlers explaining how to successfully explode a hand-grenade has also been recovered from the mobile phone of the accused”, he said.
A FIR has been registered under sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosives Substances (Amendment) Act at City Police Station Tarn Taran on August 30.
Notably on August 8 Amritsar( Rural) police had recovered five hand grenades of similar mark along with tiffin bomb from village Daleke in Lopoke, while the State Special Operation Cell, Amritsar on August 16, had recovered two hand grenades of the same make and model (P-86), along with other weapons from Amritpal Singh and Shammi.
