Police find KLF’s second unexploded hand grenade in Ropar

Tribune News Service
Ropar, July 9

Khanna Police said they found a second unexploded hand grenade on Friday near Ropar’s Lalehri village, a development that comes a day after police investigators found an unexploded but live hand grenade that was tossed at the house of a Non-Resident Indian in a village in Sangrur district.

Ropar’s Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Chaudhary claimed police’s questioning of Jaspreet Singh Noopi, a former soldier of the Indian army arrested recently for having set up a module of the separatist Khalistan Liberation Force meant primarily to carry out targeted killings, led them to an unexploded grenade in a remote area of Ropar district on Friday. This grenade, they said, was thrown there last month and was primarily meant to test the quality of their ammunition after their previous one did not detonate.

Noopi, who’s one of the four people arrested recently in connection with police investigations into separatism, faces at least seven criminal cases, including murder. He and two other undertrial prisoners broke out of a jail in Patiala in April this year.

The development comes after Noopi’s questioning lead to an unexploded grenade at the house of an NRI in Hedike village in Sangrur district.