Preliminary investigations revealed that a part of the consignment of arms and ammunition seized by the BSF on May 21 this year near the international border in Amritsar was supplied by the ISYF
The Punjab Police arrested three terrorists having direct links with Pakistan's ISI-backed banned terror outfit, International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF).
The arrested terrorists — Gurdial Singh, Jagroop Singh, and Satwinder Singh — had been trained and tasked by the ISI to carry out terror attacks and target various 'anti-Panth and anti-Sikh forces/individuals' by Pakistan-based ISYF chief Lakhbir Rode and Harmeet Singh alias Happy alias PHD.
Preliminary investigations revealed that a part of the consignment of arms and ammunition seized by the BSF on May 21 this year near the international border in Amritsar was supplied by the ISYF.
Gurdial hails from Hoshiarpur district, and both Jagroop and Satiwinder are residents of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar District. While Gurdial and Jagroop were arrested from their native houses, Satwinder was apprehended at a police checkpoint close to his village in Balachaur.
Police said Gurdial Singh was the chief operator of this terror module. During his last visit to Pakistan in November 2016, he had arranged a visa for Jagroop Singh and traveled to Lahore with a jatha. During interrogation, the duo revealed that Jagroop met Rode during his stay in Lahore in November, 2016.
Jagroop confessed that he was taken to the ISYF chief blindfolded at an undisclosed location, where a four-day training in handling AK-47 rifles and other smaller weapons was imparted by the ISI. He was also trained in techniques of sabotaging railway tracks by loosening the securing/fastening mechanisms of fish-plates, and nuts and bolts.
The Punjab Police spokesperson said that both Gurdial and Jagroop were tasked to carry out terrorist attacks in India. Rode and his associates had promised to supply arms and ammunition across the border to them in India.
The interrogation further revealed that they had also been in touch with some militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
Both Gurdial and Balvir come from a terrorist background, with criminal cases registered against them in 1992 and 1988. A 0.32 bore pistol, with one magazine and 10 cartridges and a 0.38 bore revolver, with seven cartridges, were recovered from the suspects.
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