Bittu sent in 9-day police remand

LUDHIANA: In a bid to unearth former terrorist Daljit Singh Bittu���s foreign connections, police would send his laptop, computer and mobile phone to the Central Forensic lab, Chandigarh, for scanning. Though, the police officers are tightlipped on their next move, SSP Sukhchain Singh Gill commented, ���We have concrete evidences about his involvement.���
Bittu was arrested on Thursday night after arrested terrorist Balbir Singh Bhootna confessed his links with him.Currently, in police custody after registration of a case under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, Bittu has been send to nine days police remand.
Sources in police informed that police is looking forward towards unveiling his foreign sponsors. They claim that Bittu in past had received substantial amount of money from abroad for his activities here.
Bhootna too had claimed that Bittu had been financing terrorist activities in state. The SSP, explaining one of the sections levelled against Bittu informed that one of the sections is about receiving unaccounted money from abroad and using it for unlawful activities.
Notably, police had confiscated a computer from the office of Shiromani Akali Dal (Panch pardani), of which Bittu is a leader. The same office is being used to publish an extremist Sikh magazine, Sikh Shahadat.
About a dozen other such extremists magazines, with established and un-established aid from Sikh diaspora are also operating in state.
The police have confiscated the computer used by the magazine. Sources claim that police have got vital clues regarding the foreign sponsors of the magazine.
A prominent name in the post Blue Star militancy in state, Bittu was presented before the district magistrate on Friday night.
Defending himself, he asserted, ���The police is asking me where we get money for our advertisements in newspapers, this is not a reason to arrest somebody.��� Before his arrest in 1996, he was living under assumed identities. Coming out of jail, he joined mainstream politics with separatist leader Simranjit Singh Mann.
However, both parted ways to find separate space for themselves. On the verge of losing his identity, the Sachcha Sauda controversy imparted him a fresh lease of life. Making provocative speeches against Ram Rahim Singh, he somehow had been trying to regain his stronghold.