The Punjab Police on Thursday night busted another terror module with the arrest of two alleged Khalistani operatives, who were preparing to carry out a series of terror attacks and targeted killings at the behest of their Pakistani mentors and handlers. Disclosing this, Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta said that a German-made MP5 sub-machine gun, a 9mm pistol with 4 magazines, and two mobile phones with a host of incriminatory conversations, messages, photographs, etc, were seized from the duo.
The mobile phones revealed suspicious transactions with Pakistan-based elements, including photographs, voice messages, as well as the coordinates of a particular geo-location, DGP said. He disclosed on Friday about the breakthrough.
In addition, a large variety of posts and web-links, connected with the formation of Khalistan, were also found on the mobile phone of Gurmeet Singh, who has been in regular touch with the ISI and anti-India elements sponsored by the Pakistan establishment, Gupta added.
According to the DGP, 44-year-old Gurmeet Singh divulged during questioning that the photographs and voice messages had been shared with them by the Pakistan-based handlers to locate and pick up sophisticated weapons kept at that location by their associates. He further revealed that their Pakistan-based handlers had been instructing them to carry out terror attacks in Punjab, especially targeting persons belonging to a particular community, to “further the cause of Khalistan”.
Gurmeet further disclosed that he had visited Pakistan about three years ago to meet his handlers.
Police said that Gurmeet Singh was earlier involved in a case of fraud with his brother and a case was registered against him in Amritsar.
Meanwhile, efforts were being made to fix the identities of the Pakistan-based mentors and handlers of the terrorist module, said Gupta, adding that further investigations to unearth the full linkages and ramifications of the terror module, including those based across the border, were in progress.