According to the police chief of Punjab, Gurvinder Singh(25), Virender Singh(23), and Jaspreet Singh(18) who worked under the directives of Pakistan-based gangs headed by designated terrorist Ranjit Singh alias Neeta.
Three operatives of the banned Khalistan Zindabad Force( KZF) suspected to be involved in the Gurdaspur grenade attack were killed in the early hours of Monday in a common operation by the police in the Uttar Pradesh quarter of Pilibhit.
The three Khalistani operatives- Gurvinder Singh( 25), Virender Singh alias Ravi( 23), and Jaspreet Singh alias Pratap Singh( 18)- were injured and later failed after an exchange of fire with police forces from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Official Statement
” Where ISI- patronized terrorism is concerned, a major advance has been made against ISI- patronized terrorism in Punjab when a common operation of UP Police and Punjab Police led to a hassle with three operatives of Khalistan in Pilibhit quarter in UP. In this hassle, two AK- 47 rifles and a Glock dynamo have been recovered,” said Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav in a videotape statement.
” The three linked were all residents of the area of police station Kalanor in Gurdaspur, and they were involved in a grenade attack at Bakshiwala police post in Gurdaspur,” he said.
The low- intensity blast was reported on Wednesday night from an area under Kalanor police circle in Punjab. examinations reveal that the three were allegedly working on the directions of the Pakistan- grounded designated terrorist Ranjit Singh alias Neeta.
A designated individual terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs in July 2020, Neeta was controlling this module through his Greece- grounded assistant Jaswinder Singh Mannu, and Jagjeet Singh of the UK also has reported to the British army, DGP said.
DGP Yadav further said that primary disquisition indicated that Ravi was leading this fractured module and hails from Agwan — the vill of Mannu.
Pilibhit supervisor of Police( SP), Avinash Pandey, said the Puranpur police station was informed by the police labor force from Gurdaspur that some suspected Khalistani terrorists who had fired grenades at the police check post may well have been hiding in the area.
What happened in recent history?
Three police stations in Punjab were attacked within the space of one week, egging security agencies to consider the possible involvement of Khalistani terrorists. A Friday evening assault targeted the Bangar police post in Gurdaspur, while a blast passed at the Islamabad police station in Amritsar on the day before Tuesday. An explosion passed near Bakshiwal police post, also in Gurdaspur. Still, there were no injuries in these explosions.
An unvetted social media post claimed similar blasts to be a conduit to the Khalistan Zindabad Force.
