Two teen brothers behind blasts at police posts in Amritsar: Cops

Jashandeep Singh, alias Danny (19), of Jandiala Guru and his juvenile brother, aged 17, were behind the blasts at the Gurbaxnagar police chowki and the Majitha police station on November 29 and December 4, respectively.

The two alleged operatives of cross-border terror module were arrested by the State Special Operation Cell on December 13 for planting remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) attached with RDX outside the Ajnala police station, which did not explode due to some snag. The IED was also smuggled from Pakistan.

They were produced in court today after their police remand expired. The court extended their police custody by another five days.

The duo reportedly admitted during their interrogation that they had lobbed China-made hand grenades smuggled from Pakistan at the two police stations even as the police authorities remained in a denial mode about the nature of explosion, adding that they were awaiting forensic reports.

The police had recovered two China-made P86 hand grenades and a sophisticated pistol from them. The state witnessed seven blasts in the past 25 days; four of them in Amritsar district alone.

Police sources privy to the probe revealed that the accused received an IED and four hand grenades for carrying out blasts on police establishments at the behest of ISI-backed terror module operated by BKI operative Harwinder Singh Rinda and USA-based gangster-turned terrorist Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Pashia. Foreign-based gangster Gurdev Singh Jaisel, Gopi Nawanasheria and Germany-based Jeevan Fauji were also part of the module.

The police said the two brothers were drug addicts. The module first provided them drugs for free but later demanded money for the same. Unable to pay, they agreed to work for them in lieu of drugs.