Khalistan liberation force terror module busted in Punjab

CHANDIGARH: A sleeper cell of banned terror outfit Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) that had several Shiv Sena leaders on its radar was busted with the arrest of three people in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Sunday.
Sukhjinder Singh and Narinder Pal and Surinder Singh were travelling in a car when nabbed by the police party. Sukhjinder and Pal are from Gurdaspur while Surinder is from Batala.
An AK-47 rifle with one magazine and 20 cartridges, one 0.38 bore US-made revolver with 5 cartridges and one Brazil-made 0.45 bore Taurus pistol with 3 cartridges were recovered from them.
This was the fourth such terror module busted by Punjab police in September.
These revelations came within a month after Abdul Karim Tunda arrest. He threw light on the association of Lashkar-e-Taiba with Babbar Khalsa International and other Sikh militant outfits for carrying out terror strikes in India.
“Yograj Sharma, Surinder Billa and Harvinder Soni of Shiv Sena party were on targets in Punjab. Preliminary investigation has revealed that these terrorists were in touch with Pakistan-based ISI. They had been given a job to fan communal tension in Punjab by attacking Shiv Sena leaders. Their job was to begin with Punjab and reach Mumbai to attack several top politicians of Shiv Sena,” a top Punjab police cop told TOI.
He also said Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was also on their radar. A case has been registered against them.
The sleeper cell was being controlled by two foreign-based terrorists Harminder Singh and Harmeet Singh, he added.
Earlier, on September 13, the Barnala district police had arrested one terrorist in connection with the Shingar cinema blast in Ludhiana.
On September 6, six members of a terrorist module including ringleader Satnam Singh were arrested from Nanded Sahib in Maharashtra.
Another cop in the intelligence wing of Punjab Police said that ISI was in regular touch with Harminder and supplying his men to run terror strikes in India.
KLF has been a loose association of scattered Khalistani groups which allegedly trained death-row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in 1990s.
The Supreme Court had rejected the mercy petition for Bhullar, who has been accused of orchestrating a car bomb explosion on September 11, 1993 outside the offices of the Indian Youth Congress on Raisina Road in New Delhi, killing nine people.