Ludhiaana investigation

New forensic findings have sharpened suspicions that Sunday’s bombing of the Shringar Cinema in Ludhiana was carried out by the sole major Khalistan terror group that still survives — the Babbar Khalsa International.


Experts at the NSG’s National Bomb Data believe that the explosive device was fabricated from some 450 gm of cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine, or Research Department Explosive. It was most likely triggered by a simple, battery-powered timing device, like an alarm clock.


The National Security Guard’s findings are consistent with accounts provided by eyewitnesses, who reported that the bomb generated a cloud of brown-black smoke — a feature typical of RDX-based explosive devices.


RDX seizure


The Punjab police said the RDX bomb-fabrication technique was consistent with a BKI cell known to have become active earlier this year. Last month, the Punjab police seized 3.5 kg of RDX from a car owned by Jagraon resident Gurpreet Singh, son of the former Dal Khalsa terrorist Avtar Singh. However, Gurpreet Singh succeeded in escaping from the routine police checkpost which discovered the explosive, hidden inside a sack full of wheat husk.


Punjab police detectives later learned that Gurpreet Singh, who is absconding, met BKI chief Wadhawa Singh earlier this year, after travelling to Lahore through Kuala Lumpur. He is also thought to have been in contact with a prominent Khalistan activist, Wadhawa Singh’s Germany-based daughter Bhupinder Kaur, who, Indian officials claim, has helped to funnel funds to terror groups in Punjab.


Ever since the Eid-day bombing in Ludhiana, which claimed seven lives and left 32 people injured, the Punjab police have been trying to question three of Gurpreet Singh’s known associates. “We learned that the men had gone missing just before the bombing,” a senior police official told The Hindu. Over two dozen former terrorists linked to the suspects are now being questioned, and Punjab police officials say they are optimistic of rapid progress.



Courtesy:The Hindu

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