Chandigarh/Jalandhar, February 24
In a major breakthrough, Counter Intelligence (CI) Jalandhar, has busted a module backed by Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) involved in firing incidents linked to extortion with the arrest of its two key operatives and recovered one .32 bore pistol along with magazines and eight cartridges from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Tuesday.
Those arrested have been identified as Sukhwinder Singh alias Sunny and Rawal, both residents of village Kulam in SBS Nagar. Yadav said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested accused persons were acting on the directions of their foreign-based handlers—Gopi Nawashehria, Jassi Kulam, and Sushant Chopra—who are associated with BKI. As per the probe, the accused allegedly fired gunshots twice at the residence of a travel agent in the Garhshankar area to extort money, he said.
Sharing operational details, he said that in an intelligence led operation, teams from CI Jalandhar has arrested both the accused persons linked to BKI from Jalandhar-Amritsar Highway, near Lidhran underbridge at Suranussi in Jalandhar and recovered weapon from their possession. The DGP said that further investigation is underway to trace forward and backward linkages and identify other members of this module. More arrests and recoveries are likely in coming days, he added.
