Chandigarh: With the arrest of five more accused in the May 9 case of blast at state intelligence headquarters, the Punjab police on Friday said that the Pakistan based gangster-turned terrorist Harvinder Rinda and Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa were behind the plot for the said blast.
The director general of police (DGP), Punjab, V K Bhawra told newspersons that the case had been cracked with identification of all the persons involved in the case.
Bhawra said that the main accused Nishan Singh, who was already in the police custody, has now also been booked for carrying out the plot for Rinda and Landa, collecting rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher and arranging all the support for the other accused, besides five other suspects.
However, the three suspects who carried out the RPG attack on the intelligence HQ, one of whom has been identified as Charat Singh, are still absconding, police said.
The DGP said the main conspirator Lakhbir Singh Landa, who is based in Canada, is wanted in several cases of making ransom calls to businessmen, singers and doctors.
Elaborating on the case, the DGP said that Landa was in touch with Nishan Singh of Tarn Taran, who was arrested two days ago by the Faridkot police in an arms smuggling and supply case.
The other five arrested are Kanwar Bath, Baljit Kaur, Jagdeep Kang and Anantdeep Singh Sonu (brother-in-law of Nishan), for giving shelter to attackers and for other related crimes and one Baljinder Singh Rambo who gave an AK-47 to Charat Singh who is on the run. Charat Singh and two other accused carried out the attack on May 9 night.
Jagdeep Kang is a resident of Wave Estates in Mohali and the attackers had stayed with him as well as done the recce of the intelligence HQ area. All other accused are from Tarn Taran district.
The DGP Bhawra further said that the Punjab police have also detained, for questioning, two persons Naseem Alam and Sarfaraz (natives of Bihar) from Noida in the case.
It may be recalled that a blast was reported in the late hours of Monday on the third floor of the Punjab police's intelligence headquarters in Mohali, sector 77, which sent the state on high alert. Though some office property was damaged due to the blast, no one was hurt in the incident.
