Terrorist module: Four hand grenades, three pistols recovered from Batala village

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 17

Following the interrogation of two alleged associates of UK-based terrorist group, the Punjab police on Tuesday recovered four hand grenades and three pistols along with three magazines and 30 live bullets concealed at Dhariwal-Batala road near Suchetgarh village in Batala.

Amritpal Singh and Sammy were held on Sunday night with two hand grenades and a pistol along with four magazines and bullets. They are alleged associates of UK-based terrorist group led by Gurpreet Singh Khalsa who was also wanted in the Shingar bomb blast case.

Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta, in a statement here today said the search operation was carried out in night.

Repeated seizure of explosives in the border belt raised concerned among the security agencies indicating that these were to be used to disrupt peace atmosphere in Punjab and creating terror among the people.

The DGP said following the development, the police have also added sections of 13, 16, 18, 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the FIR.

Earlier, the police had recovered a tiffin bomb with 2-kg RDX and five hand grenades along with 100 live rounds of 9mm pistol which were dropped through drone near Daleke-Beharwal border village.

Later hand grenade was found in a garbage pile at posh Ranjit Avenue area on August 14.

DGP said the vigil and patrolling has been intensified in the border villages. Special security checkpoints were set up near the border villages to check the movements of anti-national elements.