Punjab Police on Monday arrested six folk in connection with the grenade assault on the Bhindi Saida police location in Amritsar district final month.
The assault occurred for the length of the intervening evening of March 29 and 30. While the explosion precipitated no injuries, it precipitated a manhunt for the accused. The arrest became as soon as the pause outcomes of a joint operation between the Amritsar Rural and Faridkot police groups, resulting within the restoration of two pistols from the suspects.
Director general of police Gaurav Yadav said preliminary investigations visual show unit a module backed by Pakistan’s ISI.
The DGP said the neighborhood became as soon as taking orders from a Pakistan-basically basically based handler directing terror activities within the assert.
The module had been radicalised and incentivised with guarantees of mountainous monetary rewards to purpose police institutions.
On the evening of the assault, the accused retrieved the hand-grenades and performed reconnaissance of the Bhindi Saida police location earlier than deploying the explosive.
This incident follows a troubling surge in low-depth strikes against security infrastructure within the border assert. Correct by the final few years, Punjab has witnessed a campaign of intimidation, most seriously the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) assault on the assert intelligence headquarters in Mohali in Might per chance per chance per chance 2022, followed by a identical RPG strike on the Sarhali police location in Tarn Taran in December 2022.
More lately, investigators furthermore linked a grenade assault launch air the BJP place of job in Chandigarh on April 1, 2026, to ISI-backed modules. These assaults section a general blueprint: Foreign-basically basically based handlers recruit local operatives to purpose excessive-visibility authorities and police buildings.
An FIR has been registered below the Explosive Substances Act, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the Arms Act.
Extra investigation is underway because the authorities work to set forward and backward linkages and dismantle the total network on the encourage of the strike. (With inputs by HTC, Chandigarh)
