Punjab Police arrests 3 ISI-trained militants

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 …read more