Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) apprehended a man from Godhra’s Panchmahal district who is wanted by the Punjab police for his alleged involvement in smuggling arms for Pakistan-based terrorist groups and carrying out grenade attacks to spread terror.
In a statement released on Friday, the ATS said that Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi Billa was nabbed from Halol town, where he had started working as a labourer in a factory. An official of the ATS said they had received specific inputs from the Punjab police about Billa’s role in smuggling two grenades and two pistols as part of a conspiracy to carry out terror attacks.
“Based on the information shared by the Punjab police, the ATS team reached Halol and learnt that Singh had started working as a labourer in a factory. He was apprehended from a hotel and brought here for further questioning. Singh admitted to his role in the grenade attack conspiracy,” the release said.
The statement added that police in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district had recently registered a case against certain individuals for smuggling and detonating grenades and helping terrorist networks operating across the border.
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“Preliminary probe had revealed the main accused of the case, Manu Agwan and Maninder Billa, who are currently in Malaysia, were recruiting operatives in Punjab at the behest of handlers of Pakistan’s ISI to carry out grenade attacks in densely populated areas of Punjab and other states to spread terror,” the release added.
It was during interrogation of two other recently-arrested accused that the Punjab police learnt about Singh’s role in smuggling two grenades and two pistols as part of the conspiracy to carry out terror attacks.
“He will be handed over to the Punjab police,” the release said.
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