CHANDIGARH: Punjab police on Monday claimed to have solved the hand grenade attack at Nawanshahr CIA office by busting a Pakistan-based terror module run by Harvinder Singh alias Rinda by arresting three operatives.
Some unknown persons on the night of November 7 and 8 last year hurled a hand grenade at the CIA office in Nawanshahr. Police personnel had escaped unhurt. Punjab DGP V K Bhawra said arrested men had been identified as Manish Kumar of Bains village in Nawanshahr, Ramandeep Singh of Atta village near Goraya town of Jalandhar district and Pardeep Singh of Sahlon village in Nawanshahr. The police team seized one live hand grenade from the possession of these arrested accused.
Bhawra said it was after an extensive and sustained investigation that the counter intelligence wing and the Nawanshahr police made the arrests. During interrogation, Ramandeep confessed to Manish and he carrying out the grenade attack on directions from Rinda. The DGP said Ramandeep had picked up two hand grenades from a location on Ludhiana-Ferozepur road as guided by Rinda.
Nawanshahr SSP Sandeep Kumar said while one hand grenade was used for the attack in Nawanshahr another live P-80 hand grenade, similar to the one used to carry out the attack, was seized on the disclosure of Ramandeep. Rinda had struck a deal with Ramandeep for Rs 4 lakh to carry out the attack, said the SSP. Rinda, a gangster active in Punjab, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Haryana, is a historysheeter and wanted for murder, contract killing, robbery, extortion and snatching. Rinda has been made an accused in the case and sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) have been added in the FIR registered on November 8 last year, initially registered under various sections of the Explosive Substances Act and IPC at Nawanshahr city police station.
