CHANDIGARH: Just a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Chandigarh, low-intensity bomb explosions rocked two nightclubs in Sector 26 in the early hours on Tuesday.
One of the clubs was owned by famous Bollywood singer and rapper Badshah.
A few hours after the explosions, gangster Goldy Brar, a close associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, took responsibility for the same, on Facebook.
No major damage was caused by the blasts, possibly caused by crude bombs, police said. Importantly, the crime scene was just 100 metres away from Sector 26 police station.
According to cops, two miscreants riding a bike hurled the bombs outside the nightclubs. A glass door of a club was damaged in the blast, but nobody was hurt, said cops. CCTV footage showed a person hurling bombs at the clubs at 3.14am, police said.
Cops suspected that the miscreants hurled crude bombs just to threaten the owners of the clubs.
Sector 26 police have registered an FIR against unidentified miscreants under the relevant sections of BNS and Explosives Act. Cops have been scanning CCTV footage from cameras installed near the crime scene to identify and trace the accused.
Puran, a waiter in DE-Orra club, one of units hit by the blasts, said he along with 7-8 employees were inside the club when they heard the first blast near Seville club. Another blast occurred outside their club soon after. The glass door of their club was damaged in the explosion, he said.