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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said that state police has solved Rajasansi #NirankariBhawan grenade attack case within 72 hours by arresting one terrorist Bikramjit Singh.
“One Bikramjit Singh has been arrested and search for another accused, Avtar Singh, is on,” Amarinder told the media here.
Three people, including a preacher, were killed and more than 20 injured when two motorcycle-borne men threw a grenade on a religious congregation inside Nirankari Bhavan at Adliwal village on the outskirts of Amritsar on Sunday.
Pakistan’s ISI very active to cause trouble in Punjab, Amarinder Singh said, adding, “The grenades were dumped from across the fence by Pakistan’s ISI. These were made by Pakistan ordnance factory.”
Ruling out any communal angle behind the attack, the CM said it was just an act of terror.
My congratulations to DGP @PunjabPoliceInd Suresh Arora and his team for solving the Adliwal grenade blast case within 72 hours. My govt will not allow the evil designs of Pak’s ISI to foment communal disturbance in Punjab by engineering such terror attacks.
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) November 21, 2018
Amarinder said Bikramjit Singh alias Bikram (26), a resident of Dhariwal village under Rajasansi police station, was arrested early this morning from near Loharka village.
Bikram, an operative of Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), has given significant information indicating that the grenade was provided to the assailants by one Happy in Pakistan.
Happy is suspected to be the Pakistan-based KLF chief, Harmeet Singh Happy alias PhD, who had earlier masterminded the conspiracy to carry out the targeted killings in Ludhiana and Jalandhar in 2016-17, in active collaboration with Pakistani establishment and the ISI.
The CM categorically ruled out any religious motivation behind the attack and described Sunday’s attack on Nirankari Bhavan as yet another attempt by Pakistan’s ISI and Pak establishment to carry out terrorist actions in Punjab to disturb the peace in the state.
It was in ISI’s interest to keep the border disturbed to ensure internal peace in Pakistan, said Amarinder Singh.
His government was committed to ensuring that nobody was allowed to disturb the state’s hard-earned peace and harmony, he asserted.
The CM said preliminary investigations and CCTV footage of the incident had led to the arrest of Bikram, who has identified his accomplice as Avtar Singh Khalsa (32), a resident of Chak Mishri Khan village, Lopoke, Amritsar.