Bathinda / Chandigarh: Punjab Police found a Tiffin box filled with explosions in Ali’s fields to villages in the Ferozepur district about Diwali Eve and claimed to have thwarted the possibility of terrorist attacks in the state.
Punjab DGP Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota said the police had arrested two people for providing logistics protection and support to the defendant, identified as Ranjeet Singh alias Gora, in the case of Jalalabad Blast, who was being investigated by Nia.
In addition to Gora, the other two who were arrested in this case were identified as Jaswant Singh aka Shinda Baba, a resident of Jhugge Village Nihanga Wale in Ferozepur, and Balwant Singh from Walipur Khurd Village in Ludhiana, he said.
ADGP (Internal Security) R N Dhoke said further investigation in this case on and more arrests are expected to be done soon.
Marking the threat to security remembering Tiffin’s bombing seizures, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh accused the Minister of Punjab Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa in “Denial Mode”.
Amarinder Tweeted: “Hopefully the Punjab Government, HM Punjab in particular, will come out of rejection mode and consider this threat.
With a lot of consignment sent regularly from across the border, extra vigil and detailed action plans must be formed to fight challenges.” Captain Amarinder has raised National security issues in his interview and even called him in his resignation to the party President Sonia Gandhi last week.
Previously on September 15, Amarinder, then the ministerial chief had ordered a high warning in the country after the arrest of four members of the terrorist module supported by the contents involved in an effort to blow up a oil tanker with a tiffin bomb.
He then said the goal behind the Tiffin box bomb spasm by the police, which was conveyed allegedly through the unknown drone.
It did not focus on the protest of farmers but the frequency in which the weapon was delivered in the last 1.5 years, he had never seen, he said.
Tiffin bombs have also been confiscated at Amritsar Rural, Kapurthala, Fazilka and Tarn Taran in recent months.
Punjab police previously thwarted a big terror attack effort before independence day after restoring the Tiffin box filled with improvised explosive devices along the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar.
The police then said that the bomb could be delivered on the Indian side through drones from Pakistan.