Days after busting a nine-member terror module, the police today claimed to have busted another Pakistan-trained module having links with Kashmiri terrorists with the arrest of three persons.
The alleged terrorists, belonging to Nawanshahr, were using a cellphone software to communicate with their handlers in Germany and Pakistan.
The police said the three terrorists had planned to carry out killings and blow up railway tracks. An arms consignment from Pakistan intercepted by the security agencies near the international border in Pakistan was meant for these terrorists, they claimed.
A spokesperson said Gurdial Singh of Road Majara in Garhshankar and Jagroop Singh of Chandpur Rurki in Nawanshahr were trained in Pakistan in November. They had been arrested from their homes. The third was their local help, Satwinder Singh. He is a Hindu Gujjar and belongs to Jagroop’s village.
The police said during interrogation, the three claimed that many persons from the state were radicalised by Pakistan taking advantage of sacrilege incidents and Bargari police firing killings.
The development comes amid concerns over possible terror attacks in view of the Operation Bluestar anniversary on June 6.
“They terrorists were using a special software to communicate with their handlers in Germany and Pakistan.
Jagroop’s trainer in Pakistan had loaded the software in a pen drive. He then uploaded it in the phone of Satwinder Singh. It is for the first time that such a communication channel has been detected,” said a senior police officer.
The police said Gurdial Singh was in touch with Balvir Singh Sandhu, who is based in Germany, but originally belonged to Paddi Surat Singh village (Mahilpur in Hoshiarpur). He had also been in touch with militant groups in J&K.
Both Gurdial Singh and Balvir Singh have criminal cases registered against them in 1988 and 1992. A Thompson gun was recovered from Gurdial Singh in 1992.
Pakistan-based Lakhbir Rode, chief of International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), and Harmeet Singh alias Happy alias PHD, who are staying in ISI safe houses in Lahore, had actively trained and nurtured members of this module in the last seven years, the police said.
Gurdial Singh, the chief operative of the module, was introduced to Rode by Balbir Singh. During his last visit to Pakistan in November 2016, Gurdial Singh arranged a Pakistan visa for Jagroop Singh to Pakistan as part of a Sikh Jatha.
The police said during his stay in Pakistan (November 12-21, 2016), Jagroop Singh was blindfolded and taken by Balvir Singh, Rode and Harmeet to an undisclosed location where he was trained by the ISI in handling AK-47 and other weapons. The training course carried on for four days. Jagroop was also trained in sabotaging railway tracks.
Two weapons, including a .32 bore pistol (one magazine, 10 cartridges) and .38 bore revolver (seven cartridges) have also been recovered from them.
Mobile software detected
Those arrested are Gurdial Singh of Garhshankar and Jagroop Singh and Satwinder Singh of Nawanshahr
They were using a software to communicate with their handlers in Germany and Pakistan
Gurdial and Jagroop got training in Pakistan in November last year
They revealed that many persons were radicalised by Pakistan taking advantage of sacrilege incidents and Bargari police firing killings
The development comes amid concerns over possible terror attacks in view of the Operation Bluestar anniversary on June 6
