CHANDIGARH: Addressing a media meet, the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said police has solved Amritsar grenade attack by arresting the terrorist Bikramjit Singh involved in the case.
Singh blamed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the Pakistan-based masterminds of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) for the terror attack.
The arrested person has been identified as Bikramjit Singh, 26, a resident of Dhariwal village near Rajasansi area of Amritsar.
“Happy is suspected to be the Pakistan-based KLF chief…Harmeet Singh Happy @ PhD, who had earlier masterminded the conspiracy to carry out targeted killings of RSS/ Shiv Sena/ DSS leaders and workers (and a Christian Pastor) in Ludhiana and Jalandhar in 2016-2017, in active collaboration with Pakistani establishment and the ISI,” he added.
He was arrested early on Wednesday from near Loharka village in Amritsar district.
The second person involved in the attack, identified as Avtar Singh, is still absconding.
He said Bikramjit told police that the grenade was provided to him by Pakistan based KLF chief Harmeet Singh Happy.
The person who is the mastermind is Inter-Services Intelligence. These (Harmeet Singh ‘PhD’ alias Happy) are only touts which they were using: Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh #Amritsar blast at Nirankari Mission congregation that claimed 3 lives
Singh categorically ruled out any religious motivation behind the attack and described Sunday’s attack on Nirankari Bhawan as “yet another attempt by Pakistan’s ISI and the Pakistan establishment to carry out terrorist actions in Punjab to disturb the peace in the state”.
