By Punjabnewswire4u
GURDASPUR, SEPT 15
The Gurdaspur
district Police has foiled a major attempt to revive terrorism in Punjab by
busting a sleeper cell of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) on September 15, 2013 with the
arrest of 3 persons and recovery of sophisticated weapons, including an AK-47
rifle and foreign made small weapons.
Disclosing this here today, Mr. Sukhwant Singh Gill, SSP
said that the district Police has arrested Sukhjinder Singh s/o Sucha Singh r/o
village Guria, PS Purana Shalla, Gurdaspur, Narinder Pal Singh s/o Surjit Singh
r/o H.No.24/6, Scheme No.1, Improvement Trust Colony, Gurdaspur, and Surinder
Singh @ Chhinda s/o Balkar Singh r/o village Kiri Afgana, PS Sri Hargobindpur,
Police District Batala. He said that one AK-47 rifle with one magazine and 20 cartridges,
one 0.38 bore Smith & Wesson revolver (made in US) with 5 cartridges and
one 0.45 bore Taurus pistol (made in Brazil) with 3 cartridges have been
recovered from them.
He revealed that developing available intelligence and
operational leads received from busting of terrorist modules by the Amritsar
Police and the Fatehgarh Sahib Police, the Gurdaspur Police has unveiled a
terrorist gang armed with sophisticated weapons, tasked by terrorist leaders
sitting abroad for specific targeting of a Pathankot-based Shiv Sena (Bal
Thakre) leader with the aim of disturbing the hard-earned peace in Punjab. He
informed that the terrorists were travelling in a silver colored Ford-Figo Car
No.PB-06-S-1313 , when nabbed by a police party. Two motorcycles being used by
the gang have also been seized. An FIR No.83 dated 15-09-2013
u/s 17, 18, 20 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, 120-B/ 153-A IPC, 25
Arms Act has been registered in Police Station Purana Shalla and investigations
are being conducted to completely uncover the module and find its linkages and
associates, he added.
He disclosed that the preliminary questioning of arrested
persons has revealed a sinister design to revive terrorism in the State by
foreign-based terrorist leaders who have motivated, supported and financed
local modules for undertaking spectacular terrorist action by targeted killings
of certain persons, with the underlying game-plan of fanning communal fires in
the State. The sleeper cell was being controlled by foreign-based terrorists
Harminder Singh @ Mintu and Harmeet Singh @ Ph.D. , he added.
He said that necessary coordination with the Amritsar
Commissionerate Police and the Fatehgarh Sahib Police was being done for
examining the cross-linkages between the three modules recently unearthed and
further investigations were in progress.
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