Youth held with hand grenade

The special cell of the Amritsar Rural Police have arrested Malkeet Singh, a resident of Pandori village, and recovered a hand grenade and a .30 bore pistol along with 10 lives cartridges from his possession.

The police said he was in direct link with UK-based gangster Dharma Sandhu, a close associate of Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).

Maninder Singh, SSP, Amritsar (Rural), said the special cell got an intelligence input that Malkeet Singh had collected a consignment of explosives and weapons from near the International Border with Pakistan. The informer said that he was going to deliver the consignment to someone on a bike from Pandori village to Kiralgarh village via Bachiwind.

Following this, a police team held a naka at the Bachiwind T-point and intercepted the accused. During search, the police seized a hand grenade, a pistol with magazine and 10 rounds from him. The police have registered a case under the Arms Act added with Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act against him at the Lopoke police station here.

“His further links were being established to bust the entire gangster-terror nexus. More arrests are likely to be made during further course of investigations,” added the SSP.