Chandigarh: Punjab police claimed on Wednesday to have foiled a major terror plot backed by Pakistan’s ISI and orchestrated by Harwinder Rinda, a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative based in Pakistan, with recovery of large cache of terrorist hardware from a forest area in Gurdaspur.
Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, said that the recovered cache of terrorist hardware includes two AK-47 rifles along with 16 live cartridges and two magazines, and two P-86 high explosive hand grenades.
DGP Yadav said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the recovered consignment was pushed into India by Pakistani agencies and Rinda as part of a premeditated plan to carry out attacks at multiple locations in Punjab.
Acting swiftly on human intelligence, Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) teams under the supervision of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), AGTF, Promod Ban managed to trace the terrorist hardware consignment from a forest area in Gurdaspur, before it could reach to the operatives of Harwinder Rinda, said the DGP.
