Chandigarh, May 11: The Punjab police on Thursday arrested two alleged “highly-radicalised men,” working under instructions of foreign-based Khalistani handlers to carry out targeted killings in the state.
The men — Sandeep Singh (26), of Bangi Nihal village in Talwandi Sabo and Amar Singh(48), of Chattha village under Sadar-Dabwali police station of Haryana’s Sirsa district were arrested from the Faridkot-Kotkapura highway and two pistols of .30 bore and 40 live rounds of ammunition were seized from them.
The two men were allegedly linked to terror modules involved in the Punjab targeted killings, the police claimed and added that the two accused were in touch with Australia-based Gurjant Singh. Gurjant was charged by the National Investigation Agency for RSS leader Ravinder Gosain’s murder in Ludhiana last year.
The two men were arrested after their motorcycle collided with a Mahindra Scorpio on Faridkot-Kotkapura national highway.
The two accused disclosed they had been in touch with their handlers through social media and encrypted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, the police claimed, adding that the duo had been tasked with carrying out killings of people by their handlers.
Cops probe accused’s terror links
The Punjab police are investigating the links of the two accused with other possible terror module members and Khalistani operatives. The Punjab police had busted a terror module on May 29 last year and had found its members had formed a sub-group, called “Khalistan Zindabad,” that was linked to the radical website of International Sikh Federation, founded by Gurjant.
